Were Quotes · Page 30

Luckily, the films I did in Kannada were successful.

— Navya Nair

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

— Jimmy Cliff

I come from an educated family, but we were poor.

— Wunmi Mosaku

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

— Shimon Peres

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

— Michael Chabon

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

— Tina Turner

I had four films one year that were supposed to happen and didn't.

— Liam Hemsworth

We were raised as Christians, and religion plays an important role for us.

— Niko Kovac

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

— Ruben Blades

When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school,…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

The Dolls were the forefathers of glam. You never knew if they were going to kiss you or punch you. More than…

— Shawn Amos

When you're young you're influenced by the best teams. So a lot of my favourite cricketers were Australian.

— Stuart Broad

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

— David Sze

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do…

— Vivek Wadhwa

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

— Najib Razak

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because…

— Linda Grant

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were…

— Janet Reno

When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into…

— Julian Assange

In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much…

— Deborah Ellis

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in…

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents…

— Gordon Neufeld

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have…

— Paulo Coelho

From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths…

— John Ridley

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean…

— Jane Siberry

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

— Will Rogers

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

— Ray Bradbury

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

— Bruce Sutter

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.

— Cristela Alonzo

Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

— F. Sionil Jose

There were definitely times when I regretted ever being Batman.

— Adam West

My existence wouldn't be the same if there weren't women.

— Shaggy

When I arrived at Atletico, at that point they were not so strong.

— Thibaut Courtois

The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.

— Alex Higgins

I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.

— Jacqueline Bisset

Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball were so unique.

— Carol Burnett

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.

— Emile Lahoud

There were no Asian lads boxing when I started.

— Amir Khan

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

— Mika

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

— Yogi Berra

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

— Neil Innes