Things Behind Quotes
28 quotes by 24 authors
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And…
— Prince Charles
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A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.
— Anthony Michael Hall
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Being Chinese immigrants in the United States, it was important for my parents to maintain ties that went back a long time. They led by…
— Chien Chung Pei
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Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and a few feral…
— Sharyn Alfonsi
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My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.
— Cam Newton
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I've always been good at putting things behind me–I fall apart, do my crying bit, and then put it away and move on.
— Paula Radcliffe
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The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to the…
— Maximus the Confessor
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It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
— Toni Morrison
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their…
— Ann Brashares
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their…
— Ann Brashares
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
— Ernest Hemingway
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We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their…
— Joanne Harris
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to…
— Rachel Cusk
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life…
— Henry David Thoreau
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You'll never see the great things ahead of you if you keep looking at the bad things behind you. You are exactly where you need…
— Melchor Lim
Who Wrote These Things Behind Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 28 Things Behind Quotes as follows: