We Come Quotes
615 We Come quotes by 499 unique authors
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,…
— Abraham Verghese
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So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves…
— Howard Pyle
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But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.
— Aryn Kyle
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Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot…
— Wendell Berry
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Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has…
— Henri Nouwen
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It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where…
— Terry Pratchett
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Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
— Isabel Allende
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a…
— Anne Lamott
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Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where…
— Libba Bray
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Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe,…
— William Stafford
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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best,…
— George Santayana
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We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!
— Graham Chapman
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If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.…
— Timothy Keller
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No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
— Brad Meltzer
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At the hour of death when we come face-to-face with God, we are going to be judged on love; not how much we have done,…
— Mother Teresa
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When we come to worship the God and Father of us all and to partake of the sacrament symbolizing the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns…
— Paul Auster
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We come together, we create our families, we chose our mates out of the desire to form a life together. Love takes many forms, wears…
— Yasmine Galenorn
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So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are…
— Marcel Proust
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It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use…
— Benjamin Carson
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Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at…
— Bill Bryson
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That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Who Wrote These We Come Quotes
499 authors contributed a total of 615 We Come Quotes, led by these top contributors: