Top 525 Gone Quotes

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
Neville Marriner
I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
Bob Dylan
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Geraldine Brooks
I’ve gone through a lot as far as health.
Alexis Ren
The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
Linda M. Godwin
So I think I’ll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it’s gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it’s not the production. It’s not the same thing.
Tony Kushner
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
Edmond About
Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we’ve gone in the right direction.
Nick Rhodes
The tax relief that this Congress has given now in term

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.
Richard Neal
I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, ’cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.
James Brown
To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.
Sebastian Coe
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
Lynne Truss
It’s true what they say: ‘You don’t appreciate what you’ve got until it’s gone.’ I miss love. I miss being looked after.
Cilla Black
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
Noam Chomsky
They think something’s gone wrong, but in Don’t Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It’s the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who’s investigating the two women.
Nicolas Roeg
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
Duke Ellington
God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.
Charles Wesley
Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity’s shared story.
Sarah Parcak
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
Ray Bradbury
The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.
Mary Gaitskill
I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.
Joseph Stiglitz
You never believe your own hype. As quick as somebody can be ‘the guy’ in Hollywood, he can be gone the next minute. For me, it’s about doing great work. And then hopefully you keep working forever.
Scott Eastwood
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
There’s a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It’s really gone too far. I don’t know an easy way to turn it back.
Adam Clymer
Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They’ve gone.
A. A. Gill
As I’ve gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn’t know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.
Tom Wopat
I don’t consider myself a survivor; that’s someone who has gone through something terrible.
Geraldine Ferraro
My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.
Felicity Jones
Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors’ annual medical expenses.
Jim Gerlach
Other dogs may do their jobs in their own unique and perfectly wonderful ways, but there will always be that dog that no dog will replace, the dog that will make you cry even when it’s been gone for more years than it could ever have lived.
Meghan Daum
I was on my bike, cycling to Stanford, and it struck me that a week had gone by without my having a phone. And everything was just fine. Better than fine, actually. I felt more relaxed, carefree, happier.
Steve Hilton
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.
D. H. Lawrence
I’ve gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I’ve done my best, and I still haven’t got them. So I think I’ve been lucky in who’s decided I’d be worthy of their time.
Chris O’Dowd
I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It’s really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
Nikki Giovanni
Banaras really pulls you. I had been to the city several years ago for a film shoot. Though I have very fleeting memories of that stay, I still remember that I had gone to Kashi Vishwanath temple and shopped for some Banarasi saris.
Himani Shivpuri
It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We’re all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We’re as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.
Charlie Kimball
Eventually I returned to the W to play in Dallas, because of my coach Fred Williams. But once Fred got fired, I knew that my support there was gone. And that the only way I could stay in the league would be if I were living near my family on the West Coast.
Liz Cambage
I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.
Keanu Reeves
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
Conrad Hall
Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx
When our financial system – essentially our money managers, marketers of investment products and stockbrokers – put up zero percent of the capital and assume zero percent of the risk yet receive fully 80% of the return, something has gone terribly wrong in our financial system.
John C. Bogle
Now I’m 18, I’m about to turn 19 – I’ll get a script for, like, a college frat boy type, and if I’d never gone to school, I wouldn’t really have anything genuine to draw from.
Skyler Gisondo
I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it’s going to be here after I’m gone.
Savion Glover
Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down – to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who’s never gone through difficulty.
Arca
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we’ve grown and are learning to accommodate each others’ differences.
Layne Staley
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
Sam Houston
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.
Liam Neeson
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can’t relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
Glenn Danzig
The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
Adam Cohen
And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.
Geraldine Ferraro
When I’m dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
Alexander McQueen
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for ‘telling,’ but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you’re not doing it.
Cynthia Ozick
The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.
Paul Samuelson
I don’t just hop in the car. I have destinations. I drive to relax. I’ll be gone for two weeks, hit four or five major cities. I don’t like being nowhere for more than two or three days. I just go. I don’t have a schedule.
Charles Oakley
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
Peter Ustinov
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
Russell Lynes
It’s such a cycle. You’ll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he’s gone.
Swae Lee