Gone Quotes - Page 6

• Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds withdraw their touch of brightness from the dreary November landscape at the north to whirl through the southern woods and feed on the waxy berries of the mistletoe.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Summer, Bye, Long

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• Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.

  Sara Nelson

  Reading, Writing, People

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• Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

  Paule Marshall

  Past, Understanding, Sometimes

  Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.206, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.

  Christopher Paolini

  Writing, Character, People

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• The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

  Stuart Law

  Team, People, Bars

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• Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

  Leonard Bishop

  Firefly, Dark, Perception

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• I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it's worldwide. You can't imagine. I mean, I still can't believe it myself that everything has gone so well.

  Tiesto

  Believe, Mean, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Country, Years, Perception

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• Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

  Jewel

  Break Up, Dream, Ex Boyfriend

  Song: You Were Meant for Me, Album: Pieces Of You

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• The light has gone out of my life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sympathy, Condolences, Loss

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Farewell, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Bird, Guests

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.852, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

  Luther Burbank

  God, Ideas, People

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• O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Winter, Hair

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

  John Muir

  Book, Science, Men

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• While I was gone, I had quintuple bypass surgery on my heart. Plus, I got a haircut.

  David Letterman

  Heart, Bypass, Plus

  "atest Track of What is Now Tropical Depression Frances". "CNN Live At Daybreak", www.cnn.com. September 7, 2004.

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• Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him.

  David Letterman

  Campaigns, Broke, Newts

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• The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not to be confused with a cocktail inspired by John McCain, the Cosmopoligrip. And then there was one a couple of years ago inspired by George W. Bush, the Mojidiot. Of course, there was the Bill Clinton Screwdriver.

  David Letterman

  Couple, Confused, Crazy

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• I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

  Walter Cronkite

  Men, America, Trusted

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• He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

  John Muir

  Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Higher

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• I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

  Patsy Cline

  Mother, Support, Ifs

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• Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.

  O.C.

  Rap, Winning, Hip Hop

  Song: My World

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• Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wise, Mother, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.125, Cornell University Press

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• I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

  Ishmael

  Brother, Hip Hop, Next

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• Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Dropping Acid, Best Job

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