Back After A Long Time Quotes

#1. She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you sing and speak of blooms and petals that come back after a long time of being winter-still, you don't have to think about things that don't.

Ally Condie

#2. RIKEN has attracted numerous outstanding scientists from inside and outside Japan, and these people have achieved creative and outstanding results.

Ryoji Noyori

#3. It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.

Lynne Tillman

#4. After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Just the sight of him brought back everything that was good and homelike to her mind. It was like coming back to her own room after being away a long time with strangers.
It was where she belonged.

L.J.Smith

#6. The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional' bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb.

Jonathan Glover

#7. I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#8. I write because I don't know why I write.

Marty Rubin

#9. You see, you can send me to the penitentiary, it's not a big thing. I've been there all my life anyway. What about your children? These are just a few, there is many, many more coming right at you.

Charles Manson

#10. A long time after, while the Afterlife continued on, the Universe was coming to its end. The expanding universe had long since started to slow, then it had started to collapse back on itself.

Larry Yoakum III

#11. You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.

Marvin Hagler

#12. After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

Kim Yuna

#13. On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#14. I lived in New York for a long time. Right after college I went there. So I got my first cell phone in New York. Back when you would flip the phone up. Way back when.

Stephanie Beatriz

#15. I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

Jacques Derrida

#16. Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

Bill Bryson

#17. I can't go back, Lane. I'm sorry. I just can't."
He fell silent. And then after a long while, he nodded. "All right, but can I ask you for one thing?"
No. "Yes."
"Just don't hate me anymore. I'm doing plenty of that on my own time.

J.R. Ward

#18. Traveling would be quite perfect if only one could go home at night.

Marian Hooper Adams

#19. After I said that, for the first time in a long time, I watched as Lee threw his head back and laughed.

Kristen Ashley

#20. I used to like you. You liked me back. I knew you liked me. You knew I liked you. Why didn't you try for me? I always tried for you to notice me. You did. Don't be shy. I won't bite.

Melanie Kay Taylor

#21. There is pain in these eyes that you don't see. There is hurt in this heart that's killing me.

Alysha Speer

#22. It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other.

Lindsey Buckingham

#23. The trees off to the side have been cut down to make a parking lot. You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.

Elizabeth Strout

#24. Is this the reality you wanted?!

Kim Jong-hyun

#25. Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in the transfiguring mirror of art or poetry; especially in youth, when we do not yet know it. Many a youth would receive great peace of mind if one could assist him to this knowledge.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#26. After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

Peter Higgs

#27. After a long time, we have had a stable mandate at the top. If the BJP blows this opportunity, it will set India back by a decade.

Chetan Bhagat

#28. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#29. We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

Daniel Libeskind