Made Quotes

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.