Behind Him Quotes
183 quotes by 152 authors
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm…
— David Bowie
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having…
— George Washington Carver
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I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking…
— June Carter Cash
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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind…
— Laurence Sterne
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,…
— Sun Tzu
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The point I wish to make is that those things cause the soldier to remember that the people at home are behind him. You do…
— John J. Pershing
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
— Harold MacMillan
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He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
— Samuel Johnson
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Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been…
— Jack Handey
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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we…
— Vince Lombardi
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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,…
— William Faulkner
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Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been…
— Robert Benchley
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When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Â Behind him he has all the…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to…
— Akhenaton
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When I first started seeing (the show) come together, I was blown away. It is unbelievable. And to see Vince singing, and behind him girls…
— Nikki Sixx
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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
— Norman Parkinson
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With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him...
— Kevin Keegan
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