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I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. -- Corey Feldman
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. -- Paul Eldridge
It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything. -- Colin Quinn
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. -- Robert Browning
Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded. -- Douglas Wood
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event. -- Peggy Fleming
True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey. -- Holliday Grainger
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love. -- Sylvester Stallone
We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys. -- James MacArthur
I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.' -- Karen Abbott
As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops. -- Octavia Spencer
I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place. -- Baz Luhrmann
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. -- Kenneth Grahame
According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time. -- Roy H. Williams
People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more. -- Jean Chatzky
I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad. -- Edmund Hillary
I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis. -- Mary Lambert
Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are. -- Essence Atkins
In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline. -- Nick Harkaway
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil. -- Lucy Powell
Even if I have a good day, I still am aware of other people that are going through really hard, tumultuous things. I don't want to be the person who has a platform and neglects the things I see in my life and experiences. -- Christian Scott
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased. -- Charles Hodge
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. -- Martin Jacques
I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself. -- Kevin Hart
C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world renowned pediatric surgeon who had a tumultuous Senate confirmation process due to partisanship. Chic took office in January 1982, a time of 'tobacco wars' and a new and evolving terrifying disease that we ultimately came to know as AIDS. -- Richard Carmona
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades. -- Mark McKinnon
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood. -- Jesse Metcalfe
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. -- George Washington
Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT. -- Marv Albert
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. -- Horace
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event -- Peggy Fleming
While the tendency to generate ideas is rather natural, the path to making them happen is tumultuous. -- Scott Belsky
When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself. -- Penelope Mitchell
I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now. -- Alicia Keys
I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy. -- Maurice Sendak
But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl. -- Edward Young
And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
We're in a pretty tumultuous world, and there's a lot of uncertainty. Treasurys are where people go as one of the few safe havens in the world. -- Gary Shilling
It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known. -- Rob Sheffield
Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb. -- Gustave Flaubert
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. -- George Washington
What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself. -- Lindsay Wagner
Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. -- Rita Zahara

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