Took Us Quotes

78 Took Us quotes by 70 unique authors

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in… — Jenny Lawson
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. — Mitch McConnell
What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in… — Donna Shalala
With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits. — Randy Bachman
Four guys from England took us all by the hand. — John Fogerty
I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle… — Harry Patch
It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later,… — Ellen Malcolm
A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just… — Billy Boyd
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd… — Steve Jobs
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to… — Golda Meir
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but… — Gary Oldman
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every… — Muhammad Yunus
His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral… — Janet Fitch
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and… — Barack Obama
Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those… — Jandy Nelson
I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained… — Robert M. Pirsig
I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking by the sea,… — Thomas Pynchon
Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more.… — Ai Yazawa
It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But… — Ai Yazawa
He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was… — Dodie Smith
It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about… — Patricia C. Wrede
Cisco never had a red quarter. Never. Took us three years to get funding, and in those three years, we were never in the red,… — Sandra Lerner
As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all… — Alice Dreger
My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year… — Chuck Palahniuk

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