Top 100 Always Been There Quotes
#1. I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. It's always been there for you, waiting for your love to finn in the nooks and crannies. (Drew)
Eva Charles
#2. I'm a little frightened, perhaps. We always are, aren't we? When we have to open a door that's always been there...but we've never opened. [...] I mean frightened by the immensity of what lies beyond the door. A God of Love--infinite and eternal. How could I ever be worthy of that?
Tony Hendra
#3. She'd made her choice when he asked for her hand and she'd offered it without question. Once he touched her, she knew she was his. Afterward, he had always been there in the shadows, like a ghost who would not leave. And now the ghost had decided that he wanted her.
Sylvain Reynard
#4. People haven't always been there for me but music always has.
Taylor Swift
#5. When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
Ville Valo
#6. The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
Waldemar Januszczak
#7. My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.
Carrie Underwood
#8. Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.
Rachel Caine
#9. Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.
Marilyn Johnson
#10. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.
John Gray
#11. I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.
Kent Haruf
#12. My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
Gareth Bale
#13. Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.
Melina Marchetta
#14. Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness.
Raphael Zernoff
#15. You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.
Neil Turok
#16. There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.
Matt Long
#17. As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare ..
Alexander Gordon Smith
#18. He felt that he had always been there, among the apple trees, watching for the woman in the tower to come to her window. Seasons may have passed, years may have grown green on the bough, then withered and fallen, but he would stand there and wait for a chance to keep a promise he had made.
Ava Zavora
#19. Music has always been there for me and is what's helped me through everything. It's like my solace.
Sharleen Spiteri
#20. Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
Mike Leigh
#21. Fear is the thing that shows a man who 'e really is. The 'ateful ones are pointin' fingers and layin' the blame because that's what they think it takes to survive. Those people 'ave always been there, but fear just shows the rest of us who they are, and because of that, they'll end up alone.
April White
#22. The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Michel Faber
#23. From me," Kaltain said, in a voice that was dead and hollow and yet vicious. "It has always been there - asleep. And now it has been awoken. Shaped anew.
Sarah J. Maas
#24. Our bodies surround what has always been there
Anne Michaels
#25. There's only one person in this race who will be there, who's always been there for you, and that's Hillary Clinton's life story.
Joe Biden
#26. The tallest and oldest trees that seemed to have just have casually always been there, hold the greatest love: as it nurtures love for others: providing shade for two lovers, becoming home for birds to build a nest, and giving food to the squirrels whom scurry upon it.
Forrest Curran
#27. Love doesn't have to be like a thunderbolt; you can meet someone and fall in lov anytime. Sometimes it's just always been there... thing is... you never noticed...
S.M. Mala
#28. Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.
Stephenie Meyer
#29. That's new." His gaze was hot and fierce.
"My cock? I'm fairly certain it's always been there."
His grin flashed briefly. "No Lio, you've been cut. Circumcised."
"Oh." I stared at the smooth column of my shaft. "That must have hurt.
Belinda McBride
#30. The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality.
The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser.
In deep surrender, the ego disappears.
And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.
Rajneesh
#31. She felt, beneath her feet, the shifting of the planks she'd laid across the quicksand of that other life. She'd thought she could escape it? It was there, it had always been there, and this life she'd built on top of it felt about as sturdy as a shantytown on the flank of a volcano.
Laini Taylor
#32. I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
Moshe Safdie
#33. My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense.
Paula Creamer
#34. Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
Lil' Wayne
#35. It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
Dakota Fanning
#36. A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.
Haruki Murakami
#37. Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
Janet Jackson
#38. There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a thing, and I guess it's always been there. I hope it will always be there, I hope we don't evolve past that.
Buck Brannaman
#39. The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.
Aaron Rodgers
#40. Nothing's louder than the
end of a song that's always been there.
Terry Pratchett
#41. Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.
JJ Feild
#42. That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
Alan Parsons
#43. In 10 years' time I still want to be at Arsenal, winning trophies for my club and for the national team as well. I've been at Arsenal since I was nine or 10. It feels like I've always been there, the club's been great to me and I feel I owe them that to be there and to stay around.
Jack Wilshere
#44. If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.
Charles B. Rangel
#45. It wasn't simply his choosing to be alone that kept him that way; it was almost a condition of his existence. The feeling that he was an outsider had always been there.
Terry Brooks
#46. That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can create something from nothing, and suddenly they come to life, like they've always been there.
Adam Christopher
#47. Where the bodies are buried in the desert is a certain world, Counselor. Where they are simply left in the street is another. That is a country heretofore unknown to me. But it must have always been there, must it not?
Cormac McCarthy
#48. How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened
one just has to recognize the fact. It is not something that happens from the outside, it is something that arises from the inside. It has always been there but you were clouded, you were full of thoughts.
Rajneesh
#49. Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#50. Her mom... had always been there, her love as basic and necessary as gravity, until one day she wasn't.
Sharon Guskin
#51. But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life.
Ben Fountain
#52. I'm the one who's always been there for you ... not him!
Cassandra Clare
#53. I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.
Cierra Ramirez
#54. Unfortunately, conflicts have always been there and they don't seem to be stopping. I'm a journalist and a photojournalist at heart, and I think that we have to be there always to cover it.
Shaul Schwarz
#55. Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.
Edith Wharton
#56. We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word.
John Petrucci
#57. I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.
Norman Lewis
#58. But she did not know where the doubt, the fear, began. It had always been there, but she had sought to rearrange it within herself; and in the constant rearrangement was transformation.
Amanda Coplin
#59. I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.
Maria V. Snyder
#60. My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down.
Tyler Perry
#61. The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon - as well as all of the short stories that writers studied for the inner trick of them. But there was no trickery: only the plain words put there as if they had always been there - like pebbles cooled in a river.
Naomi Wood
#62. There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.
King Krule
#63. I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.
Kellie Pickler
#64. I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing ... creating ... it's in my DNA.
Janelle Monae
#65. It was the first time she'd slept in my bed and yet it felt like she'd always been there.
Christina Lauren
#66. I'm really lucky that I've had a little gang of people who I've been involved with for a long time ... I've been really lucky to have a gang of people who have always been there to encourage me to get on with it. Styles come and go, but I try not to take any notice of that.
Nick Lowe
#67. Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.
Dwight Yoakam
#68. The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.
Mick Taylor
#69. The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
Cat Stevens
#70. During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#71. As I stood in front of the mirror in the beautiful little black dress, I knew that I was looking at a woman whom I would never see again. I wished I had never seen her in the first place, but the truth is she had always been there. I was being dishonest to myself by pretending that she hadn't.
Jane L Rosen
#72. Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem ... Maybe.
Henning Mankell
#73. My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.
Steven Spielberg
#74. Ash, it's because of you that I am here today. You have always been there, never wavering, protecting me with no thought for yourself. You've been my teacher, my knight and my only love. Now it's my turn to make that promise.
Julie Kagawa
#75. Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean ...
Michael Bloomberg
#76. In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.
Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
#77. I nestled into the nook of Mum's arm. Then lay on a cushion on her lap. I fell asleep like that. She's all bones and hard edges. She's never been comfortable, but she's always been there.
Nathan Filer
#78. Xav!
Got you. Not letting you go.
I realised I wasn't alone in mental deep space; he had always been there and could pilot me home.
Joss Stirling
#79. When we are in the darkness, we begin to feel like we have always been there. But it is not true. David reminds himself that God has been faithful in the past; God will be faithful again. He urges himself to put his hope in God because the morning will come.
John Eldredge
#80. It really is amazing all the things she has done for us (him and his three siblings). It's unrealistic, really, to see my mother do so much so right And that's one of the reasons I love her so much. She has always been there.
Mike Bibby
#81. You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.
David Crosby
#82. Well, I've known Elizabeth almost all of her life and almost all of my life. And I love her with all of my heart and she's always been there for me. She's a wonderful, wonderful dame. She's a great lady.
Liza Minnelli
#83. My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.
Solange Knowles
#85. My explosiveness, I really couldn't show it at UCLA. It's still there. It's always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East, and so you know that's a grind out game.
Shabazz Muhammad
#86. A dream comes from within you. It is what you were created to do, so it has always been there.
John Patrick Hickey
#87. My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
LeBron James
#88. They said she could not do it. But she didn't listen so when she did it. And when they stood in awe, she did not hear their applause. The only validation she needed came from the voice inside her head. The voice that had always been there saying, "You got this.
Toni Sorenson
#89. Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
Bell Hooks
#90. Canada has always been there to help people who need it.
Justin Trudeau
#91. In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.
Tom Ford
#92. My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.
Steven Michael Quezada
#93. I have realized that for those who live in the West, freedom is so often something they take for granted. It has always been there for them. It is their unnoticed, unrecognized, constant companion and friend. But for those of us who come from countries like Sudan, freedom is wonderful and precious.
Mende Nazer
#94. My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.
Sasha Cohen
#95. I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going.
Chelsie Shakespeare
#96. Did tragedy cause fissures, open them wider
or did tragedy merely turn on the light so you could see the fissure that had always been there?
Harlan Coben
#97. Moments are best when everyone can take a moment to remember to be grateful for their life and those who cherish theirs. It ought not to take a tragedy to awaken someone to truly value what he/she has and the people who have always been there to bring comfort every day.
Steven Cuoco
#98. My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.
LeRoy Neiman
#99. They always say it is better to have loved and lost and all that, so no I don't think I have any regrets, and I have always been there for all of my kids no matter what.
Mark Goddard
#100. Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow
Rasheed Ogunlaru
