Behind You Quotes
359 Behind You quotes by 301 unique authors
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You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.
— Daniel Handler
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Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair…
— Stephen King
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A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
— Virginia Woolf
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When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
— Margaret Atwood
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If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe…
— Sherman Alexie
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You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
— Jodi Picoult
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Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look…
— John C. Maxwell
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I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound…
— Rick Riordan
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These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in…
— Sherman Alexie
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Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed…
— Nicole Krauss
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I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.
— Kelley Armstrong
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It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the…
— Bernhard Schlink
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The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind…
— Nick Hornby
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I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know,…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The…
— Gail Carson Levine
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Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind…
— Wayne Dyer
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Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crowfood.
— Erin Hunter
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For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and…
— Ray Bradbury
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As you walk through life, always walk toward the light, and the shadows of life will fall behind you.
— Thomas S. Monson
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But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were…
— Elizabeth Strout
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Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then…
— Jennifer Rardin
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I love you, i love your smile your snarl your grin, your face when your sleeping.I love your hair streaming behind you as we fly,…
— James Patterson
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My demon ate them. (Nick) What happened to the jocks? (Acheron) Riiiight. And I suppose the Big Bad Wolf will be coming in right behind…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who Wrote These Behind You Quotes
301 authors contributed a total of 359 Behind You Quotes, led by these top contributors: