Behind Him Quotes

183 Behind Him quotes by 151 unique authors

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. — William Godwin
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him… — Lascelles Abercrombie
Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You… — Ben E. King
Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground. — Jimi Hendrix
Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together.… — Garth Nix
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying… — John Greenleaf Whittier
He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God.… — Charles Spurgeon
Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No… — Henry Adams
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give… — Charles Caleb Colton
It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their… — Eric Davis
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach… — Jerry Lewis
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. — Walter Lippmann
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann
When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ… — Joel Osteen
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record… — Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at… — Vladimir Nabokov
It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman* — Toni Morrison
Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him. — Susan Cooper
I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly… — P.G. Wodehouse
You and me?” I let out a stunned bark of laughter. “There is no you and me.” “That’s what you think,” Chaz says, tugging on… — Meg Cabot
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails… — Billy Collins

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