#turned

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#go #got #her #i #license

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#four #had #happy #happy days #i

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#although #around #asked #because #bush

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. ↗

— Leon Uris

#best #book #cry #first #nine

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#back #believe #come #decisions #disinterested

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#done #ever #i #life #meaningful

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#approaches #back #closed #eyes #his

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#down #i #million #movies #turned

When I turned about 18 or 19, I was really ready to, like, stop being - stop being seen in this, like, perfect light. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#being #i #light #like #perfect

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#day #down #first #garden #had