#stayed

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today. ↗

— Debbie Meyer

#available #college #done #had #i

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#best #best work #done #droves #ever

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#american #any #because #born #came

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#community #could #going #i #i love

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page. ↗

— Marla Maples

#been #could #different #every #front

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#i #smoke #stayed #until

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#added #authentic #became #bits #built

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#agree #any #beach #blank #casting

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #came #children #cleaning #common

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#big #big cities #bright #bright lights #cincinnati