Wanted Us Quotes

71 Wanted Us quotes by 63 unique authors

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller… — P.J. O'Rourke
Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch… — Nicole Beharie
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas. — Don Cheadle
My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to… — Brooklyn Decker
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live. — Lillian Hellman
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. — Nora Ephron
Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue,… — Tony Iommi
Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. — Elton John
John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to… — Caroline Kennedy
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. — Jay Leno
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor. — Joan Rivers
God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us. — Rick Warren
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. — Zig Ziglar
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. — Stephen Colbert
As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this… — Rumi
If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason. — Jodi Picoult
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted… — Elton John
The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the… — Dorothy Allison
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and… — Mark Twain
Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why… — Louise Rennison
We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them. — Daniel Handler
She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none. — Veronica Roth
If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears. — Ken Blanchard
As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my… — Jamie Cullum
My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls… — Lou Doillon

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