Best 1678 quotes in «wanted quotes» category

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!

My mother always wanted to give back.

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve.

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.

Nobody who was shooting dice wanted to get a dance.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.’ – Sundown

Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.