Came And Went Quotes

#1. Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.

Milla Jovovich

#2. Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.

Chris Squire

#3. The DoD has never undergone an audit. In 2004, it actually pledged to undergo a full audit by 2007, but that deadline came and went, and then they moved it to 2016. No one, not even the DoD, thinks they'll actually be able to pass it in 2016.

Nick Turse

#4. I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

Amity Gaige

#5. Christmas was an enduring milestone that came and went, while the world forever changed.

Ellen Marie Wiseman

#6. And the cameras came and went, stealing pieces of our lives to entertain the people.

Kiera Cass

#7. One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

Glen Duncan

#8. I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.

Jill McCorkle

#9. If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty ... that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin and sin alone is eternal.

Kim Wright

#10. time before history" is because it was an era that came and went without leaving a trace of itself. Since nothing went "wrong, " nobody had any reason to write anything down. It was lived, not recorded.

Mel Ziegler

#11. It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere. Instead, I got a job at Cooper Union Library. I stayed at Cooper Union for seven years; it was my salvation. While I worked there, I also read books of every kind.

Claes Oldenburg

#12. We stopped talking for a long, long time. A long time. Nurses came and went attaching and detaching things. Hundreds of thousands of babies were born while we weren't talking. The continents continued to separate at the same page as fingernails growing.

Miriam Toews

#13. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.

David Halberstam

#15. Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.

Nora Roberts

#16. It was like opening up that vast void within all over again. As if during the days since her disappearance a thick liquid had slowly seeped in and filled that chamber, only to have it all sucked out again when she came and went.

James Dashner

#17. But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

J.M. Barrie

#18. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption.

Steve Jurvetson

#19. It was a myth that every mother and daughter were best friends, but friendship was far less important than family. Friends came and went; family was always there.

Nicholas Sparks

#20. It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.

Allan McNish

#21. A moment that should have lasted forever and forever
Long over
it came and went before I knew it existed.
I think I know what it means,
But every time I start to explain it, I forget the words.

Charles Wright

#22. Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

Anne Tyler

#23. For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

G. Willow Wilson

#24. Love came and went as often as the tide. Feelings changed. He never wanted to fall into that trap. Why allow himself to fall for something as frail as love?

Kelly Moran

#25. The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

Rumer Godden

#26. She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.

Gemma Malley

#27. She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

Lois Lowry

#28. An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

James Russell Lowell

#29. Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.

Geraldo Rivera

#30. He was dead tired, thanks to which, whatever emotions he might have had, simply came and went without gaining a foothold. The Rat began to relax and lay down his empty head on the mingled sounds of the waves and the deejay until sleep crept over him.

Haruki Murakami

#31. Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.

Stephen Crane

#32. I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.

Ciaran Hinds

#33. Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

Willa Cather

#34. Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]

Augustine Of Hippo

#35. Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.

Martin Edwards

#36. The skies we slept under were too uncertain for forecasts. They came and went on the moody gusts of the Atlantic, bringing half a dozen weathers in an afternoon and playing all four movements of a wind symphony, allegro, andante, scherzo and adagio on the broken backs of white waves.

Niall Williams

#37. Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.

Alastair Reynolds

#38. Life was nothing other than what came and went with each passing moment.

Andre Gide

#39. The seasons and the years came and went ... and always ... one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.

W.G. Sebald

#40. There was something of the wildwood in the man who came and went illusive as moonlight moving through the branches.

Janet Lee Carey

#41. She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -

Robert Harris

#42. The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

Neil Gaiman

#43. The '70's came and went already

Joe Perry

#44. And the years came and went, the decades. But now it's no longer possible to put it off any more: either now or never. The one final opportunity must be taken, for the hour is late and nobody will come upon me.

Ivan Bunin

#45. Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

Edith Wharton

#46. Zacharias's study bore the marks of his predecessors, whose taste had run decidedly stoicheiotical. They had had a fondness for skulls with burning lights in their eye sockets, crystal balls in which mysterious shapes came and went, and dark velvet window curtains traced with obscure runes.

Zen Cho

#47. It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was)

Rainer Maria Rilke

#48. . . .Consciousness came and went.

Consciousness went and came like the errant winds of spring, and I, who so often have had difficulty in falling asleep among the besieging shades of memory, now fought to stay awake as a child struggles to lift a faltering kite by the string.

Gene Wolfe

#49. It was nice to hear your breaths as they came and went, something quiet and close, keeping me from feeling so alone.

Kiera Cass

#50. Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#51. My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

Antonio Porchia

#52. All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life.

Stig H. Johansson

#53. That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

Kristin Hannah

#54. There is no subterfuge in you, Miss Adeline. Why is that?" Color came and went in her cheeks. "Everyone has layers. Even me." He leaned closer as his son neared and allowed a curl to wrap his finger. "I look forward to peeling back those layers.

Colleen Coble

#55. Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

Philip Zaleski

#56. Anxious little smile that came and went - a mendicant

John D. MacDonald

#57. Still, the days were endurable and came and went like breath with only a few deep heaves to harm the pace.

William H Gass

#58. The years came and went, and gave their blessings, and demanded their sacrifices.

Christie Golden

#59. One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away.

Jack Kerouac

#60. Many years ago there lived a man called Laurids Madsen who went up to heaven and came down again thanks to his boots.

Carsten Jensen

#61. I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't.

Tom Berenger

#62. I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.

Zach Cregger

#63. My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Fred Allen

#64. This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.

Eddie Condon

#65. I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Harrison Ford

#66. I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, 'Why didn't I go to bed at 11?' I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.

Roger Federer

#67. I came out of the private sector, a life that I enjoyed. I sleep in a bed every night with a woman I went to first grade with. I wasn't running for a job. I was running - and I think you will find this to be the case with many of the freshmen - to produce results.

Steve Southerland

#68. My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.

China Mieville

#69. The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.

Dennis Christopher

#70. No matter what happens to you in life, you just roll with it. And then, when we went back to shoot Eclipse, I went to Quileute and taught some acting to the kids, and just got to spend some time in the community, which was great because it gave me an idea of where Emily came from.

Tinsel Korey

#71. I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby ... I have been cancer free for 7 years now ... I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment.

Amy Weber

#72. Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#73. I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

Walter Kirn

#74. I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#75. I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.

Norm Crosby

#76. The Hills Have EYes... so be careful where you step and where you go so far one family has went there and few of them have came back!

Deyth Banger

#77. It was just as all the Kettral said: You went to Hook to escape your problems and came back with a dozen more.

Brian Staveley

#78. She came to her own private conclusion, which she tucked away in a drawer, and silently went back to her meal.

Haruki Murakami

#79. I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

Rebel Wilson

#80. When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

Frank Frazetta

#81. I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.

Emun Elliott

#82. The other night I went out to have dinner in a London pub and the barmaid had this whole conversation saying, 'You look just like that guy from Twilight'. Every time she came up, she said something like, 'You literally could be his brother'. But she never put two and two together.

Robert Pattinson

#83. Pauline: "All under-fives are mad Adrian, you used to talk to the moon. You invited it to your birthday party and cried when it didn't turn up."
George: "When it went dark and the moon came up, you ran outside and threw a sausage roll at it!

Sue Townsend

#84. And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#85. The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

H.L. Mencken

#86. I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too.

William Bell

#87. He'd pissed the bed. It was awful. I couldn't even look, really. I just shouted for his parents and they came down, and I went upstairs while they cleaned him up. When

John Green

#88. Every time we came back from a rough mission we had to shake up the line-up and twice we had to find a whole new infield. They had a hot club in our squadron once before, the best in the whole division and then they went to Schweinfurt.

Bert Stiles

#89. plews." Glass paid the captain his full attention. Every citizen of St. Louis knew some version of Drouillard's story, but Glass had never heard a first-person account. "He did that twice, went out and came back with a pack of plews. Last thing he said before he left the third time was,

Michael Punke

#90. I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I'm fine now.

Paul Merton

#91. Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.

Benjamin Percy

#92. Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

John Waters

#93. I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom ... and a moth ate my sports jacket.
He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.

Woody Allen

#94. I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

Tina Fey

#95. I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.

Britta Phillips

#96. 6So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her. 7. And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and o his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.

Anonymous

#97. I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

Sid Bernstein

#98. My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the shelf and put it up next to my Oscar. That's where we put our trophies.

Geena Davis

#99. Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even they become big things.

Jan Karon

#100. My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.

Bjork