Went Quotes

It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I’m standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.