Were Still Here Quotes

#1. Eve took the gun from Blake, the hand that had been shaking steadied. "Mouse, I wish you were still here. This place was better when you were part of it.

Debra Anastasia

#2. What had happened would always be part of us, but we'd survived it. We were still here. The curtain would fall ons us eventually, but I would fight to keep it up as long as I could. For now it was just us, together, and there was nothing in our way.

Michelle Hodkin

#3. This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that time were still here, alive, even if it was just in the form of collective memory.

Carrie Vaughn

#4. All I can think about is what she must be doing, and how I wish she were still here.

Pittacus Lore

#5. When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here - I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends.

Hope Edelman

#6. Sex and love went together. Not here. The teenage hormones were still here, but the feelings were gone.

Amy Tintera

#7. When you were still here, Isobe thought, death seemed so far removed from me. It was as though you stood with both arms outstretched, keeping death from me. But now that you're gone, suddenly it seems right here in front of me.

Shusaku Endo

#8. He only wished that she were still here. It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily and Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he would never get back.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.

Tommy Lee

#10. And if you were still here today, I would tell you, that in your future, do not settle for anything less than the Jake Andrews of the world. Because they exist, and not just in fairytales.

Jay McLean

#11. I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

Patti Davis

#12. Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Al Yankovic

#13. As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here

Morrie Schwartz.

#14. I breathed and thanked something that was not exactly God, something that was still here. I could almost imagine that it was still before when we were young and many things still lived.

Peter Heller

#15. If your parents are still alive, call them today and ask them to describe the day you were born. Write the details down here, on the following pages. Tell the story every year on your birthday until you know it by heart.

Amy Poehler

#16. I don't need the bowls to give me peace anymore," Ian said. "I have you. And Jamie, and Belle. If all the Ming bowls in the world were smashed, I'd still have you." [ ... ]
"You broke the bowl, and it is gone. But you are here, and whole. Nothing else matters.

Jennifer Ashley

#17. Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground, there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question:
"Where do we go from here?

Arthur C. Clarke

#18. Hallie and I ... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. Close my eyes and feel you here. Sigh and wish you were, my friend. Love you still and deeply. Come to me again.

Anonymous

#20. They were only to glad to come, ... as an alibi to test their charms ... but once they'd made it into the house their hearts where in their boots because they knew enough to see that here Madame Verona was still living off the interest.

Dimitri Verhulst

#21. 'I thought you were an atheist,' Sjurd commented to hide the clench of his gut. He couldn't be stuck here while his country burned.
'Nobody's an atheist in a storm,' Celyn said absently, still frowning at the sky.

Amy Rae Durreson

#22. All over the world great writers were dying young: Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, and now here was Angela wrestling with the Reaper. A fatwa was not the only way to die. There were older types of death sentence that still worked very well.

Salman Rushdie

#23. The American people are opposed to ObamaCare. They were when the law passed; they're still opposed to it. But the fact of the matter is it's got to be implemented. We're trying to do our part even here in Nebraska. It's very, very difficult.

Dave Heineman

#24. I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?

Hanan Al-Shaykh

#25. The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205 - a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.

Joseph McCarthy

#26. In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

Isaac Mizrahi

#27. We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

Joey Harrington

#28. Maybe it's the coma, but I'm genuinely happy to be here.' 'You don't have to do that, you know.' 'Do what?' 'Assume that everything is different now. You're still the same person you always were, you've just got some gaps to fill in. You mustn't think that you're starting all over again.' 'Is

Sarah Painter

#29. I don't know why you're laughing, Miss Thing," Nick said, turning his gaze to me. "You still fantasize over Joe McIntyre like you are thirteen years old!"
"Oh, I own my obsession. If Joey Joe were here right now, I'd break him. I have no shame.

Alice Clayton

#30. I'm lucky summers are cool here, or this would really be the pits," Britt muttered, hiking up her pantyhose. (Merlin still insisted they were called chausses. Britt knew better.)

K.M. Shea

#31. To both Holly and Cade, Tera said, "Then we part ways here, hopefully with peace still between us."
Cade shrugged. "What's a few arrow wounds among friends, yeah?"
With a wince, she said, "About those arrows, Cade. They were dipped in poison - "
"Poison!" Cade bellowed. "Ah, come on, Tera!

Kresley Cole

#32. You were my fucking sanctuary, that's what you were to me. You were my guilty indulgence. I should've stayed away from you, but I couldn't. I still can't. Jeezus. Look at me. I'm damn near on my knees here

Tijan

#33. Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

Vera Nazarian

#34. When you were talking to me here, I couldn't sit still; when you cried here, when you tormented yourself because you were jilted, because your love was slighted and disregarded, I felt that in my heart there was so much love for you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#35. This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

Gary Sheffield

#36. If you weren't there, and I weren't here ... If I weren't me ... but you were still you, I would be interested in letting you like-like me.

Courtney C. Stevens

#37. 'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.

Nicolas Roeg

#38. Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone.

George R R Martin

#39. Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.

Andrea Gibson

#40. There were bad times before, and you are still here... Living, breathing, feeling the wind on your skin. Let everything go and feel it!

Adam Scythe

#41. Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

Barbara Jordan

#42. A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.

Frederick Lenz

#43. Moving to the US was quite a transition for me, to say the least! There were, and still are so many new things to get used to: the language, food, culture, even the style of basketball is different here!

Yao Ming

#44. The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

Samuel Eliot Morison

#45. If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.

Lorrie Fair

#46. They were quiet a moment longer, both staring at the mermaid and her weird water-spouting nipples. Neither moved.

Mollie knew why she didn't want the moment to end. But why was he still here?

Lauren Layne

#47. I told you we were meant to be, he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now
Well, now I kiss him.

Elizabeth Scott

#48. I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Caleb Carr

#49. Comes a day when everything you thought you had put behind you sets up its tent in the middle of what you were still hoping you could call tomorrow and yells out, 'Right this way.'

Well, here I come.

Laird Hunt

#50. I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

Joseph R. McCarthy

#51. Here's another test. Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? If

Steven Pressfield

#52. I'm still looking for someone
Who said they were here for me,
And I thought I was once there for you.
But when troubles are nearer than friends,
And the road comes to an end,
What could I do?
I wish I could fly away like you.

Margo T. Rose

#53. Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

Noel Redding

#54. Even thought you've been acting like a jerk all night, you're still here. I could tell you were angry. So you're angry; at least you're something. You're not nothing anymore.

Jennifer R. Hubbard

#55. Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father's folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn't do this and offer me this background, I wouldn't be here.

Ving Rhames

#56. His legs were still crossed, and his bulge sat atop his crossed thighs, so large it seemed to be taunting her, [...].
"My eyes are up here, you know," Elbryn said in amusement.

Ash Gray

#57. Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#58. In the early 1600s, for nearly two decades, Virginia and Bermuda were the only English colonies in the New World. Here, for the first time, English, Indians, and Africans had to learn to live together. After four hundred years, there is still much to learn.

Virginia Bernhard

#59. If you were a pet, I would have gifted you enough by now to buy out your contract, many times over."
"I'd still be here," said Damen, "with you.

C.S. Pacat

#60. And even if we are occupied with most important things, if we attain to honor or fall into great misfortune- still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#61. I am still drunk that you were here,
and you were mine.
And once again I stretch my hand out
for that wine;

As your drunk eyes could not bestir
themselves, I too
Can't move; as you love wine, I love
the wine that's you;

Jahan Malek Khatun

#62. Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

C.S. Lewis

#63. In Europe we felt that our enemies, horrible and deadly as they were, were still people.
...
But out here I soon gathered that the Japanese were looked upon as something subhuman and repulsive; the way some people feel about cockroaches or mice.

Ernie Pyle

#64. Still he had not cracked a smile, but his eyes were different now, they were here.

Jerry Spinelli