Quotes About Baggage

#1. You have more baggage than United Airlines. Cross that out. You have more issues than Medusa, and that woman makes the inside of a cat lady's thoughts seem like a calming place.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#2. Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Steven Pinker

#3. Baggage is a funny thing. The more you have of it, the heavier it becomes and the longer it takes to reach your destination in life.

Chloe Maxwell

#4. I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.

Dana Delany

#5. My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

Gary Numan

#6. I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

George Will

#8. For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

Marcus Terentius Varro

#9. I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

Sean Bean

#10. Everyone you meet comes with baggage, find someone who cares enough to help you unpack.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#11. I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing things in that world that's a little hard to unlearn.

Steve Dildarian

#12. Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.

Faraaz Kazi

#13. I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.

Neil Armstrong

#14. I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.

Christopher Castellani

#15. Just promise to talk to me ... I can help you with that baggage, you know. What was I saying? I had never dealt with anyone's baggage! I didn't even know what it was!

A Meredith Walters

#16. Imagine, the task force guy says, telling a passenger on arrival that a dildo kept her baggage on the East Coast. Sometimes it's even a man. It's airline policy not to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. Use the indefinite article. A dildo. Never your dildo.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. I've never written a character that wasn't burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let's face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He's a healthy guy - imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot.

Ann Nocenti

#18. Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

Ha Jin

#19. We carry our past sorrows and anger and they become a kind of baggage that makes life heavy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#20. And we don't have to use all the psychological baggage we inherit. We can empty our suitcases and repack them with new rules and possibilities.

Kesho Yvonne Scott

#21. Unlike other professions - doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker - when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.

Mike Barnicle

#22. As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#23. All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.

Terence McKenna

#24. My life now fits inside a carry-on. Pretty depressing, huh?"
"Our lives are much more than just the baggage, love.

Bryan K. Johnson

#25. Mom walked out on us, remember? Because she never got over her own baggage, not because of you or me, right?

A.S. King

#26. A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

Olivia Wilde

#27. Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage.

Leon M. Lederman

#28. May you never feel the weight of your emotional baggage.

Benito Di Fonzo

#29. All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

Lucille Clifton

#30. The process of finding an actor is always difficult and there's always so many variables that come into play. Also, actors sometimes carry baggage, fans associate actors with certain parts.

Franck Khalfoun

#31. I guess I don't come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they don't match up, I find it frustrating.

Graeme Base

#32. Jenny Boylan might be the one person in this world whom I now think of purely as a human being, free of all the corporeal baggage of chromosomes, hormones, and footwear.

Tim Kreider

#33. I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which makes me lose respect for certain photographers. Sometimes it's worth it to spend money on a good idea, but wasting money makes me ill.

Peter Menzel

#34. Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'

Martha Beck

#35. By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once.

Rumi

#36. Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

Anonymous

#37. Look around! People have faces with no smiles, as if they are carrying heavy baggage. Stop them! Give them a SMILE and see them Light up.-RVM #Inspiration #stayinspired

R.v.m.

#38. They may have all had suitcases three times as big as mine, but I realized that the emotional baggage I'd brought with me was big enough to put theirs to shame. It was a little lighter, though, now that I was leaving.

Jenny Lawson

#39. I know all about baggage, sweetheart. I have enough of it to fill up a 747 and then some.

K. Bromberg

#40. Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels.

Joseph Fort Newton

#41. When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.

Cathryn Louis

#42. Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem. ... If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you'll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

Dan Harris

#43. I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.

Toby Stephens

#44. You talk of being a believer, but you can't seem to trust anyone, not even God. You cling to your wealth as your security and carry the baggage of being unworthy, even though God loves you and has forgiven you. You should have listened a little closer to that sermon in church a couple of weeks back.

Colleen Coble

#45. Feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: You hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear makeup, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humor, you don't use deodorant.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#46. The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#47. Your body is baggage you carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip. -Arnold Glasow

Brian Mills

#48. Living is hard. And every day our feet get heavier and we pick up more baggage. So, we stop and take a breath, close our eyes, reset our minds. It's natural. As lond as you open your eyes and keep going.

Cora Carmack

#49. 'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#50. I like a girl with baggage, Abby Mae. Keeps things interesting." His comment was too much; it stripped away my normal sarcastic responses. I was left with nothing but the bag in my hand, so I tossed it at him.

R.S. Grey

#51. If you must then hire for passion first, experience second and credentials third. Then train those hired for directed passion, dropping the excess baggage and the whole process of unlearning. An entrepreneur is much like an architect shapping human resources into a well crafted power house.

Nikhil Sharda

#52. We look at babies and we see ourselves, only without all the baggage. We can look into a baby's face and somehow imagine that life will be different for them. That it will be better. Kinder. Free from pain.

Andrea Semple

#53. Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift - the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

Billy Graham

#54. I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

Jeff Bridges

#55. A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage.

Alexander McCall Smith

#56. Wolves are not all the things people want them to be, good or bad, but they've carried with them forever the most baggage.

Carter Niemeyer

#57. To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

John C. Maxwell

#58. I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little ... it'll grow back!

Ed Robertson

#59. Be it concluded,
No barricado for a belly. Know't,
It will let in and out the enemy
With bag and baggage.

William Shakespeare

#60. Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else' decision to cling to well-worn path.

Brandan Roberston

#61. The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.

Peggy Ryan

#62. When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

Frederick Lenz

#63. Jocelyn: 'I've dated a few nice boys. Though if things got serious, I ended it. I didn't want to involve some poor guy in all the stuff I was carrying around.'

Noah: 'Excess baggage, you mean?'

Jocelyn: 'More like three suitcases, a couple of steamer trunks, and a carry-on.

Kate Kae Myers

#64. Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.

Debasish Mridha

#65. Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

Debasish Mridha

#66. I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

Neil Young

#67. You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.

Andrew Dominik

#68. I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.

Bipasha Basu

#69. The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.

Emily Watson

#70. I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

Bette Midler

#71. This was one of those moments when I realized that my emotional baggage, once a few neatly packed pieces, was now like the Joads' truck, stacked high with old clothes, half a rocking chair, a mule, all barely secured with twine.

Amy Cohen

#72. In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Dirk Benedict

#73. So forgive and forget the past baggage of life to refresh your life.

Debasish Mridha

#74. I want a real relationship, one without intimacy issues; without trust issues, but with all my emotional baggage, I don't know if that's possible.

Ella Dominguez

#75. By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Robyn Davidson

#76. Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

Ferdowsi

#77. There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence ...

Alice Meynell

#78. Maybe it's just easier to hold onto resentment and bitterness.But when you hold onto them, you're imprisoning yourself, not the other person. Not forgiving is pretty heavy baggage to carry around.

Cathy Bryant

#79. In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.

Nikki Sixx

#80. No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

Jan Karon

#81. Maybe this was a selfish choice. Someone nobler than me might have given Okiku the final peace she deserves. Someone with less baggage that she would have let him.

But flawed as we are, we are perfect together.

After all, I'm no hero.

Rin Chupeco

#82. You can't fly if your wings are holding the baggage of yesterday. Let go. Fly.

Steve Maraboli

#83. I am told that only two groups carry very little negative baggage inside of Christianity: Franciscans and Quakers.

Mirabai Starr

#84. Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.

James Crumley

#85. I try to leave my work at work, and check my work-baggage at the door before I go outside of here. I'm not a super method actor, and I think that all the answers are inside the script.

Ashton Holmes

#86. ...one person's dreams can become another's baggage.

Nilesh Rathod

#87. He couldn't be the type of guy she probably deserved - someone her own age without baggage or complications. But he could be the man she needed.

Shelly Bell

#88. Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

Rory Freedman

#89. Everyone has baggage, maybe we should help each other carry it.

Rob Liano

#90. You tripped over my baggage, when it could have been easily navigated by more agile feet.

Fiona Helmsley

#91. Live in the moment. Don't carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and learn from it, but don't carry it on your shoulder. You will feel lighter and be able to enjoy the present and the future.

Debasish Mridha

#92. Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#93. One of my favorite luxuries in life is travel. Jet lag and lost baggage aside, it's an incredible way to learn about other cultures, meet new people, broaden your horizons ... and do some amazing shopping!

Amanda Hearst

#94. Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage.

Frederick Lenz

#95. I do look a bit different because Dudley was a very piggish character and about three years ago I lost quite a considerable amount of weight. It means that I can lead a normal life without the baggage of people running after me and shouting things at me.

Harry Melling

#96. I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Bono

#97. Every outfit carries cultural baggage of some kind. It took me a while to get a handle on this aspect of performance.

David Byrne

#98. I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

Erica Jong

#99. Anger at queries about our beliefs is the body's warning signal: here lies unexamined and probably dangerous doctrinal baggage.

Carl Sagan

#100. Baggage is how you carry the good stuff.

Marsha Moyer