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#1. I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

W.S. Gilbert

#2. The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Corazon Aquino

#3. In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

Robert De Niro

#4. See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.

Jared Brock

#5. A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to hunt boar and deer - is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.

John Burnside

#6. Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

Ashley Greene

#7. I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.

Philippa Gregory

#8. I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.

Howard Baker

#9. Nathan," I said as loud as I could, but there was nothing to my voice. His blue eyes lit with tears. He shook his head. His eyes drifted from my face to my bound hands and feet. He grumbled something and turned back to me. "I'm going to break this damn thing, okay? Don't move.

C.L.Stone

#10. He wants me to boss you around."
"We'll pick up a pair of stilettos on the way home," he said.
I said, "I need to go back to Philiadelphia.

Melissa Bank

#11. Transformation doesn't ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that's already inside of you. You only have to bloom.

Cheryl Strayed

#12. Overachievers look forward to the finish line, underachievers look back to see who they are beating.

Bobby Hoffman

#13. And God is meant to be the home of our souls. Christ came into the world to bring us back to God, and unless we take Christ for what God intended we should, our religion will always be a divided one.

Andrew Murray

#14. I've always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, 'That's Steve Largent?'

Steve Largent

#15. When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#16. When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

Mort Walker

#17. Why would I come back to you?

Erin Bow

#18. Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.

Timothy F. Cahill

#19. I went to this beautiful place where the ground moved underneath me and the air was a part of me, and where time stopped. It was amazing and wonderful. But God sent me back, back to my body, back to you. - Lindsey Water

Cyndi Tefft

#20. Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

Suze Orman

#21. After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can't respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn't respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war.

Maria Julia Hernandez

#22. My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried.

Henny Youngman

#23. Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

Avijeet Das

#24. Keep pouring love into the world and love will be poured back to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

Charles Dickens

#26. I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.

Matthew Rhys

#27. It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.

Gustav Meyrink

#28. That's one splendid thing about such affairs - it's so lovely to look back to them.

L.M. Montgomery

#29. What will you do with all this?" she said, pointing to the tea.
"Invite you back to drink it," he murmured.
"I might say yes.

Nicki Edwards

#30. Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.

Zooey Deschanel

#31. If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

Morgan Freeman

#32. I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#33. A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.

Sakyong Mipham

#34. We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.

James Lankford

#35. I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't work. Finally I realized I should go back to all the techniques I'd learned.

Robert Crais

#36. AFTER I DELIVERED VELVET BACK to the farmhouse that night, I entered the condo and walked over to my Minotauromachia. And as I stood before it, it was crystal clear to me that the terrible monster was doomed in the face of the powerful little girl.

Wally Lamb

#37. [Joe] Biden countered. He was speaking at a summit for working families, and he said he had no stocks, no bonds, or a savings account. He then asked a Secret Service agent to hand him his hobo bindle, and he jumped a freight train back to D.C.

Peter Sagal

#38. You and this city helped wake me up - helped bring me back to life." His eyes flickered as I smiled up at him. "I will fight with everything I have, too, Rhys. Everything." He

Sarah J. Maas

#39. When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back.

Victor Hugo

#40. us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.

Brian Bates

#41. I think we should break up," I told him.
"Jesus, you're a pain in the ass," he muttered and went back to his book.
"Seriously, Vance."
"Shut up, Jules," he said without taking his eyes from his book.

Kristen Ashley

#42. I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

Marguerite Young

#43. of myself right off the bat? If that doesn't send her running back to me, I don't know what will.

April Brookshire

#44. Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat your former friends and loved ones. That's the way it is for everyone.

Mira Grant

#45. We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon.

Daniel Quinn

#46. You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#47. I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe.

Stacy London

#48. On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

Carrot Top

#49. My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.

Carrie Underwood

#50. Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

Virginia Woolf

#51. If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

Mario Andretti

#52. The argument starts by accepting that the American government will continue to spend a huge amount of money on income transfers. It then contends that we should take all of that money and give it back to the American people in cash grants. The

Charles Murray

#53. I've seen love bring a monster back to life before, but most of the time, the monster just loves you to death.

J.M. Darhower

#54. Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

Graham Coxon

#55. People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing ... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.

Neil Gaiman

#56. From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

Laozi

#57. I just wanted to go back to that secret post-terrestrial third spacce with him that we visited when we talked on the phone.

John Green

#58. Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to, and reasons to stay.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#59. The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

Jessica Alba

#60. Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it's learning not to get so lost in them that you forget what your goal is. Don't worry if your focus isn't perfect when meditating. Just practice coming back to the breath, again and again.

Kelly McGonigal

#61. I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.

Lee Trevino

#62. The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is.

Chris Lynch

#63. Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

Alex Cox

#64. I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

Harry Connick Jr.

#65. All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#66. Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We're going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.

Cornel West

#67. If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Sister Souljah

#68. I stared out of the window, at my Bronco rusting in the parking lot, the metal eager to get back to just being dirt. Life was probably easier for it back then.

David Wong

#69. Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

Felicia Hemans

#70. the many, many times in my life when I have pleaded this question "Why?" to those in power come back to me, as does the fact that I have never, ever been given an answer that's good enough for me.

Hope Jahren

#71. Michelle, I think it's time you came back to New York with me.

Faith Sullivan

#72. The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

Aspen Matis

#73. We are of such value to God that He came to live among us ... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#74. The world mirrors yourself back to you. If you love, nourish, and appreciate yourself internally it will show up in your external life. If you want more love, give more love to yourself. If you want acceptance, accept yourself.

Debbie Ford

#75. To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it.
On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina.
Waiting for her.

Sarah Addison Allen

#76. I have to hear this all the time in England: "Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm." Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.

Greg Proops

#77. I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.

Rod Stewart

#78. My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.

Martin Freeman

#79. I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.

Sylvester Stallone

#80. One does not have to forgive if forgiveness is not one of his virtues. But one can forget and never come back to the issue.

Boris Zubry

#81. You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

Camille Claudel

#82. People are leaving the church and going back to God.

Lenny Bruce

#83. We always have to go backward to move forward. Whether it's to face our own missteps or reach the end of our lives with a final mistake... We always have to go back to pull ourselves out of ignorance or cast ourselves deeper into revenge.

Amy Rachiele

#84. I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Anna Chlumsky

#85. I wanted to give the house back to the parents.

Bill Cosby

#86. I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.

Charles Bukowski

#87. Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.

Pope Benedict XVI

#88. When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

Hillary Scott

#89. Go back to the Dalai Lama. He says, I think technology has really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Amy Poehler

#90. I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.

Russell T. Davies

#91. I'm trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins. I'm going back to the starting line.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#92. When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Don Kardong

#93. It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

Olivia Wilde

#94. The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

Henry B. Eyring

#95. If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.

JR

#96. A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

Bryce Dessner

#97. With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel, circling around puzzled Jewish families walking back to their cars. This is how I learned to ride a bike.

Mindy Kaling

#98. His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence.

James S.A. Corey

#99. The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

Jaggi Vasudev

#100. The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt