#behind

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#birds #came #dawn #did #does

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#been #behind #both #felt #grateful

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#become #behind #bosnia #cannot #deeper

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#board #fight #get #hoover #i

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#behind #cares #else #great #just

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ↗

— Paul Bert

#leave #march #modern #morality #proportion

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk. ↗

— John Gilpin

#desk #i #life #my life #spend

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political. ↗

— Earle Brown

#creation #motives #music #non-political #politically

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. ↗

— John Lennon

#behind #every #great #idiot #usual

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#behind #character #hiding #i #like