We Watched Quotes
36 quotes by 35 authors
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The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn…
— Roberto Benigni
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We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center…
— Dick Cheney
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My mom would never let us quit. She always taught us the importance of sticking with it, even when times are tough. We didn't just…
— Theo Ratliff
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It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of…
— Jimmy Carter
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I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became…
— Achmat Dangor
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White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their…
— Tommy Shaw
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We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown…
— Jack Wagner
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The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even…
— Ernie Pyle
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We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union;…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each…
— Gerard Way
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One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a…
— Dave Barry
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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of…
— Henry Louis Gates
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Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
— Tom Petty
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Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright…
— Francis Scott Key
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Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
— Wayne Thiebaud
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It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all…
— Pat Conroy
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the…
— Sarah Dessen
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And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.
— Catherynne M. Valente
Who Wrote These We Watched Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 36 We Watched Quotes, led by these top contributors: