Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas Carlyle

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.
Shel Silverstein

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha Graham

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
Ken Kesey

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
Huey Newton

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Bill Watterson

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
Philip Johnson

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.
Ritchie Blackmore

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
Jeanne Moreau

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
Marian Wright Edelman

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
Billy Sunday

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
Frank McCourt

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
George Takei