Leaving behind quotes:

Send

Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind. -- Lauren Oliver
Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard. -- Tyga
If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind. -- Lisa Alther
So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by. -- Jonathan Stroud
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. -- Amelia Barr
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. -- Paolo Giordano
Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord. -- Elizabeth George
My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things. -- Renzo Novatore
--
You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not? -- Lisa Mangum
It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. -- Kenneth Clarke
Taking Morgana with it, the lightning arced back through the clouds; leaving behind nothing but the last echoing remains of her scream. -- Sam Whitehouse
As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind all principality and power, so Christians put on the Holy Spirit, and are at rest. -- Macarius of Egypt
I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind. -- Nelson Mandela
A person's first duty, a young person's at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value. -- G. H. Hardy
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it. -- George Washington Carver
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. -- Kabir
To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart. -- Brandon Sanderson
Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core.. -- Himmilicious
A song is that touched deep my heart, give orgasm to my senses.. and I feel like climbing up the hill and scream.. " leaving behind all differences.. we are the same.. mad for each other... -- Himmilicious
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief. -- Marcel Proust
Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last. -- Doris Janzen Longacre
I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness. -- Jerry Saltz
In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours. -- Bryan Appleyard
After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for seven years and excitement of the new opportunities in acting and producing that lie ahead. -- Lisa Edelstein
You are not blamed for your unwilling ignorance, but because you fail to ask about what you do not know.... For no one is prevented from leaving behind the disadvantage of ignorance and seeking the advantage of knowledge. -- Augustine of Hippo
That is what the blueprint for this time is about. We're leaving behind the limitations and the illusion of the struggle. We're moving much more into having a very different experience now on the Earth plane with our sacredness. -- Christine McCormick Day
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . . -- Vincent Canby
Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits, scars, skills, and other souvenirs. -- Rebecca Solnit
The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. -- Andrew Carnegie
There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?. -- Joe Biden
Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. -- Ben Shapiro
Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes. -- Jan Myrdal
--
--
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven. -- Dante Alighieri
America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world. -- Nicholas Sparks
The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill. -- Van Jones
The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization. -- Edward Norton
I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill. -- Stanley Druckenmiller
We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement -- Barack Obama
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring. -- N.D. Wilson
You can't leave civilization behind entirely. -- Dirk Benedict
You are what you leave behind. -- Sylvester Stallone
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind. -- P. Chidambaram
When you leave the planet, you leave music behind. -- Alex Van Halen
I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind. -- Donnie Yen
The free enterprise system does not leave people behind. -- Marco Rubio
Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind. -- Nancy Gibbs
The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories. -- Michael Landon
We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind! -- Adam Savage
I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind. -- Rashida Jones
It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with. -- John Harrison
One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record. -- Asif Ali Zardari
When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind. -- Shane Smith
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind. -- Mariella Frostrup
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. -- Thomas Browne
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind. -- Branch Rickey
Club culture is about leaving your cares behind, and I am trying to create that environment. -- Kaskade
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis
Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy. -- Mattie Stepanek
In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful. -- Tom DeLonge
I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind. -- Lauren Oliver
A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind. -- Melanne Verveer
The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind. -- Clare Francis
You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. -- Jodi Picoult
If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing. -- Jon Foreman
--
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. -- Brandon Lee
Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out. -- Gregory Maguire
we are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe. -- Allan Frewin Jones
Suicide is the way OUT of life, but, leaving everyone behind is the way INTO sadness. -- TheKatAttack
I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind. -- Rajneesh
Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye. -- David Mitchell
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind. -- C.E. Murphy
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. -- Maya Angelou
Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next? -- Mike Shinoda
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind. -- Marat Safin
The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it. -- Wendy Mass
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel -- Paul Fussell
Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together. -- RSCruz
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind. -- Anna Paquin
Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind. -- Jeff Merkley
Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind? -- Abbi Glines
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind. -- Carol P. Christ
Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else. -- Caleb Carr
That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. -- Haruki Murakami
No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life. -- Mariah Carey
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. -- Irving Howe
He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind. -- Susan Mallery
The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The moon is a loyal companion. -- Tahereh Mafi
I violently dislike you,' she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind. -- Kate Johnson
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. -- Jean Paul
So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people. -- Marcia Gay Harden
I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension . -- Eugen Herrigel
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind. -- Faraaz Kazi
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board. -- Edith Wharton
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. -- Mitch Landrieu
We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move. -- Jack Kerouac
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance. -- Louis Kronenberger
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind. -- Zach Braff
I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors. -- John Wesley
You can satisfy your soul's mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you. -- Debbie Ford
Just saying an intention and leaving it at that will not necessarily result in an outcome, if there is a stronger, more primal belief behind the scenes. -- Miranda J. Barrett
When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall. -- Arthur Golden
Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth. -- Ann Brashares
The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students. -- Andrew Card
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall. -- Bodhidharma
We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere. -- Ed Rendell
What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind. -- Kim Stanley
When you become angry, you enter a tunnel, leaving the light behind you; when you get calm, you exit the tunnel, finding the light in front of you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan

Send