Arrived Quotes
614 Arrived quotes by 524 unique authors
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I always felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked. He missed the occasion and never knew I had arrived. My…
— Regina Brett
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In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.
— Drummond Money-Coutts
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I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
— Robert Darnton
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When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my…
— Diana Quick
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Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the…
— Laura Wasser
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Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.
— Mike Quigley
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All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired,…
— Debby Ryan
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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under…
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here,…
— Martin Jacques
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The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and…
— Simon Schama
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Of course, preserving the American dream has always meant creating opportunity for the most recently arrived Americans - those who have come here from other…
— Nydia Velazquez
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Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought…
— Philipp Meyer
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We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me -…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to…
— Noam Chomsky
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Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.
— Tom Stoppard
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Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some…
— David Novak
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My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains to…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower…
— Bill Dedman
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524 authors contributed a total of 614 Arrived Quotes, led by these top contributors: