Top 100 Behind Us Quotes
#1. I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster."
-GLaDOS, Portal 2 trailer
Valve
#2. They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
Chesty Puller
#3. In religion the Future is behind us. In art the Present is the eternal.
Okakura Kakuzo
#4. A darkness lies behind us, and we have turned our backs upon it, and we do not desire to return thither even in thought. Westwards our hearts have been turned, and we believe that there we shall find Light.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. They're safe,' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms.
I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass."
He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.
Sherwood Smith
#6. Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us - long-range radar, still not in sight."
Piper leaned over the console. "Are you sure they're Roman?"
Leo rolled his eyes. "No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they're Roman!
Rick Riordan
#7. I shook my head in wonder. "How does he do it?"
"Want to know my secret?" Nikolai asked from behind us. We both jumped. He leaned in, looked from left to right, and whispered loudly. "I have a lot of money."
I rolled my eyes.
"No, really," he protested. "A lot of money.
Leigh Bardugo
#8. I'm not leaving, Kitten. You're going to do this.
My mouth opened as did the door behind us. Stomach dropping, I turned to see Mom standing there in all her fuzzy-bunny pajama glory. Oh, for the love of God.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#9. Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.
Robert M. Pirsig
#10. We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.
Lars Saabye Christensen
#11. Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.
Patricia Briggs
#12. I couldn't shake Zander's beady red eyes or the noise of his pounding wings behind us. His hot breath and foul stench reached for us, but couldn't catch us as we soared above liquid green fields in the Realm Beyond.
Dianne Bright
#13. The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
Bob Goff
#14. It's not only ghosts who haunt us. Our memories follow us through life, surprising us now and again when we are forced to turn around and look behind us.
Karen White
#15. We never know we go, - when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.
Emily Dickinson
#16. My mouth opened as did the door behind us. Stomach dropping, I turned to see Mom standing there in all her fuzzy-bunny pajama glory. Oh for the love of God. Her eyes went from me to Daemon, completely misinterpreting everything. The glee in her eyes made me want to vomit on Daemon's head.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#17. What lies behind us may be mighty. What lies before us may be mightier. But what lies within us is the mightiest of all! Christ within us is the hope of Glory!
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. Dear Lord, bless this food before us, bless the days ahead of us, and bless all who cross in front of us or behind us, as we all make our way to You. Aamen.
Beth Wiseman
#19. When we get over something, we move on, we put it behind us. Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us? I think we take them with us. They accompany us. They remain with us, if in another form. We have to learn to live with them and their deaths.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#20. As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we're like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can't see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it's there.
Jack Finney
#21. We already had three steps behind us.
"Hold on, Lia," I whispered.
Hold on for me.
Mary E. Pearson
#22. With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails.
James Gleick
#23. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?
Helen Hollick
#24. There were two spacemen right behind us, holding some kind of weapons on us that I didn't recognize. They were bulky and ended in some kind of slanted lens thing. I kinda wanted to get shot with one, just to see what it did.
David Wong
#25. In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form.
George Grey
#26. Life is happening at this very moment; it is not behind us or before us. The past is full of memories and future is full of expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#27. To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more
Rafael Benitez
#28. The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
Jenny Shipley
#29. With the way all the girls are looking at you, I might never get my chance.' I glanced behind us. 'Heck, even that big boy in the blue suit over there is watching you like candy.'
'It's possible I might've offered him a slow dance.
Jenny B. Jones
#30. Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal power that we mistakenly identify with the fruits of justice? Do you think they needed it, or cared?
Mark Helprin
#31. American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.
Dennis Etchison
#32. If we compete with ourselves and not with others, then it does not matter who is behind us or ahead of us; our goal is to become and achieve all we are capable of being and doing, and this becomes the measure of our satisfaction.
Myles Munroe
#33. Life is NOT short! It's just by the time we catch up to appreciating it ... we've already left life at least halfway behind us.
Sanjo Jendayi
#34. Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.
Joyce Carol Oates
#35. We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.
Alan Watts
#36. Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
Saku Koivu
#37. They should all be cheered by it, for isn't it what they want? What we all want: to leave a message behind us that has an effect, if only a dire one: a message that cannot be cancelled out.
Margaret Atwood
#38. We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...
Arthur C. Clarke
#39. It's the pressing on toward the goal that is important, not simply trying to look perfect or be perfect. And it's also important to forget what is behind us, because we cannot change our pasts. We can, however, look forward and fix our eyes on Jesus as we listen to His direction.
Michelle Anthony
#40. It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we have the coast road in front of us and the Sussex Downs just 10 minutes behind us.
Julie Burchill
#41. Behind us are two or three dozen country people from the outlying towns. With them are cages of chicken and goats, sheep, even cattle. That's where we fit on market day. Between the executions and the livestock sales.
Kristen Simmons
#42. I trace the letters on the tree behind us in the picture. No one knows what's churning inside of me. Crushing guilt...Pain...Relief. All mixed with knowledge that Trip is never coming back.
Jennifer Shaw Wolf
#43. movement behind us, each of us had to overcome deeply held values and traditional social strictures. The struggle was personally painful and
Lynn Povich
#44. I can't help feeling humiliated for Ithal. He stands at the wall and watches us go, and when we reach the turnoff for the school, he's still there with the mangled flower in his hands, far behind us a small, dying star fading out of our constellation.
Libba Bray
#45. Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas Carlyle
#46. We must put behind us the tribalism and divisions seen in the referendum between Leave and Remain and focus on defining our place in the world, healing our wonderful nation and putting core Conservative principles and values into action.
Priti Patel
#47. Magic is the recognition of the fire burning behind us when all else see only their own shadow on the wall.
Margaret Weis
#48. It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.
Desiree Rogers
#49. We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.
David Helvarg
#50. The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.
Laura Lippman
#51. Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.
David Novak
#52. Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Dick Winters
#53. The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
Milan Kundera
#54. If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#56. No sooner does an approaching hour become the present for us than it sheds all its charms, only to regain them, it is true, on the roads of memory, when we have left that hour far behind us, and so long as our soul is vast enough to disclose deep perspectives.
Marcel Proust
#57. I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.
Marie Lu
#58. Behind us I saw the water, still welling up from the tunnel, curving round in a frothing serpentine torrent to plunge down the other descending passage. For a moment we all sat there and watched, numb and exhausted.
Kenneth Oppel
#59. Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world.
Tito Jackson
#60. When we repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us.
C. Scott Grow
#61. She was staring at a picture of me and Sam when we were seven. No front teeth. We were standing in the front yard. It was summer and the leaves of her mulberry tree were behind us. The caption read: She was always my sister.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#62. Behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: 'Don't believe her.'
The whole world closes around me, like an eyelid: For a moment, everything goes dark.
Lauren Oliver
#63. In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.
Marian Wright Edelman
#64. Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us ...
Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed ...
When we die,
No-one will know it's happened
Kazuya Minekura
#65. It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.
George Bernard Shaw
#66. Let's see that wrist."
I held it out, and Chase's jaw tightened.
"Look at that!" the medic shouted, staring over my shoulder behind us. The moment I turned my head he grabbed my hand and jerked it toward him, hard.
A crack as the bones in my wrist realigned.
Kristen Simmons
#67. Just a glen." Behind us, Lucien snorted. "Do you like it?" Tamlin asked quickly.
Sarah J. Maas
#68. Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that.
Lev Grossman
#69. Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.
Vaclav Havel
#70. The family behind us wants to leave." He twists to peer through the back windshield. "They already have two kids. Let's follow them home." "Let's not.
Elle Kennedy
#71. Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl Sandburg
#72. If I might make a suggestion," said Will. "About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left -
Cassandra Clare
#73. Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!
Henny Youngman
#74. The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!
Douglas MacArthur
#76. Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
Thomas Hood
#77. The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.
Flavor Flav
#78. We fly forgotten as a dream, certainly, leaving the forgetful world behind us to trample and mar and misplace everything we have ever cared for. That is just the way of it, and it is remarkable.
Marilynne Robinson
#79. I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
L.A. Reid
#80. Let's nurture our spirits until they shine; and then let's strip down to our naked souls and dance through life until we drop little bits of light behind us that glow like fireflies in the night.
Cristen Rodgers
#81. I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
Latrell Sprewell
#82. We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
Michel De Montaigne
#83. out of each pain which we dont mention
a chestnut tree grows up and remains mysterious behind us
out of each hope which we cherish astar arises
and move unattainable in front of us
Vasko Popa
#84. Lets try to put last year's problems behind us and make what's bright now, for last year is not now.
Auliq Ice
#85. The moving cliff gave us the feeling we had to look behind us to know what lay ahead.
Amy Tan
#86. Once when I was at Newark Mall, me, my friends, my cousin, and my bodyguard were shopping and looking for suitcases cuz we had all these clothes. On our way out, two girls started whispering. The next thing we know, we had at least 200-300 people walking behind us, like the whole mall!
Lil' Romeo
#87. A growl rumbled behind us. "Could you not touch her?" Ren didn't make it sound like a question. "Bite me," Shay snarled. "Stop it. Both of you.
Andrea Cremer
#88. We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us ...
Charles Dickens
#89. Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#90. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
#91. 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
#92. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life? - Qyburn
George R R Martin
#93. You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball-size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.
William Anders
#94. When we woke up every morning, one of our things was, "Let's go put a new sign in the back window of the van." Those are the different signs we had up in the back of our van, so that the people behind us could have something enjoyable to look at.
David Pajo
#95. The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.
Tony Abbott
#96. I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
Edward Abbey
#97. History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
Hilary Mantel
#98. Warm fog swirled in the canyon as we gradually descended. A hundred feet in front of us everything was lost in the fog and a hundred feet behind us everything was lost in the fog. We were walking in a capsule between amnesias.
Richard Brautigan
#99. Is it my birthday again? Already? Where does the time go?"
"Behind us
or in front. It depends on which way you are looking.
David Eddings
#100. You okay, baby? Cold"
"I'm fine." I glance quickly behind us and see the two security guys, whose names I forget, standing close by.
Moving me in front of him, Christian puts both his arms around me in my shoulder.
E.L. James
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