Leave A Mark Quotes

#1. Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.

Nora Roberts

#2. Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

Mary E. Pearson

#3. There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

Joel Osteen

#4. We're all going to die. Most of us will leave no mark of our existence behind what-so-ever. Not a stain or a smudge or a smear on the face of history. I think that's sad." It made Romney horribly regretful to think that the fat man was right.

Oliver Tidy

#5. You could touch for a couple of bucks. The window of the booth went up and you stuck out the bills. They might tell you not to pinch, but I was a stroke type anyway. Some guys, I guess they want to leave a mark. Me, I just like the feel.

Sam Lipsyte

#6. I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.

Nikki Rowe

#7. Because my love for you is like a glass rose. Care for it gently. Drop it once, you'd leave a mark. Drop it twice, and my heart will shatter into a million pieces.

Melissa M. Futrell

#8. Before leaving the world, leave a profound positive mark of love upon the world.

Debasish Mridha

#9. I want to leave a mark.

But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.

John Green

#10. Every once in a while your world stands still ... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.

Art Buchwald

#11. I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.

Steve Forbert

#12. There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

Mark Lawrence

#13. You've crossed into Death, into the other side, and returned. Do you think something like that doesn't leave a mark on the soul?

Richelle Mead

#14. Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

Mark Helprin

#15. Our birthday is celebrated every year to commemorate the very first instant we came into the world, and a funeral is held to mark the day we leave it. But lately I've been wondering ... what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn ...

Taylor Swift

#16. My prayer is to leave a mark of hope and love in every corner of the universe.

Euginia Herlihy

#17. Elementary schools get it right in the first place - they're multidisciplinary and use fuzzy logic, and you're making and doing things. So are doctoral studies. You enter as a question mark and leave as a question mark.

Ken Robinson

#18. The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

Mark Twain

#19. I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered.

Thomm Quackenbush

#20. When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.

Ed Greenwood

#21. Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark; leave a positive legacy!

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#22. I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.

Mark Chesnutt

#23. I wanted to leave a mark on the world. Doesnt matter how big. I just wanted to make a mark in peoples lives.

Megan Young

#24. Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our time on earth and in dream, and to leave a permanent mark. Dissension is a drive, like those drives.

Carol Bly

#25. I swallowed darkness, and darkness swallowed me. Without light, without the beat if a heart to count the time, you learn that eternity is nothing fear. In fact, if they'd just leave you to it, an eternity alone in the dark can be a welcome alternative to the business of living.

Mark Lawrence

#26. What lies inside a cage of flames? The truth, the heart, but burned up before you can see it. Only traces remain in the ashes, a pattern you guess at or invent, an intangible thing that might leave a mark, but could just as easily blow away.

Rene Steinke

#27. The only thing that's permanent is destruction
we're all going to disappear
trying to leave a mark more permanent that myself.

Sarah Kane

#28. Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office ... You mean the one on the sofa?

Craig Ferguson

#29. Fathers and mothers," she found herself saying, "leave their mark, no matter if we've known them a lifetime or only a day.

Nalini Singh

#30. I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.

Robyn Schneider

#31. You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark.

L.M. Fields

#32. I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!

Mark Goddard

#33. I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

M.I.A.

#34. One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn't. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

Hanif Kureishi

#35. Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.

Donny Osmond

#36. Don't worry about things that you simply cannot know. Let them fall back and recede like the foam pushed aside by the flanks of a ship. Leave them behind and let your heart power on.

Mark Helprin

#37. Almost everyone is obsessed about leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
I want to leave a mark.

John Green

#38. We always joke now like, you know, the more experienced we get making stuff, we're like, "Never leave set without a shot of each of our lead characters driving in the car looking happy, looking moderately blank and looking sad." Because we know we're going to need these things.

Mark Duplass

#39. I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be so cool to have one of these built inside you, like a squid; you could point your finger and leave your mark on anything you wanted.

Jodi Picoult

#40. The problem with saying or feeling 'sorry' is that it often comes after the damage is already done.
( ... and a damage is a damage, small or big, it always leave an ugly mark on one's soul)

Asma Naqi

#41. Your time is a good time, and though I have to leave, you can stay. How lucky you are to be in the city just before it opens its eyes upon a golden age.

Mark Helprin

#42. The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#43. Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Ray Charles

#44. My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

Mark Ruffalo

#45. Shit, oh dear! Leave it to the government to turn a pandemic into an epic horror movie. The

P. Mark DeBryan

#46. Ask yourself if you are leaving a trail that others may want to follow. Are you leaving a legacy of accomplishment? What mark will you leave on your industry? Your friends and family?

Les Brown

#47. Wing watched her leave and turned to Otto. 'My father once told me that only the foolish man pulls on the tiger's tail as it dangles from the tree.' It was the first time that Otto had seen him smile.

Otto grinned at Wing. 'True, but how else do you find out if it's a tiger at all?

Mark Walden

#48. Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous power, are at the same time haunted and driven by a dominant idea, and are therefore within a measurable distance of insanity.

Francis Galton

#49. Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.

Ric Ocasek

#50. It seems fitting that the blow would leave a mark on both of us. That's how the world works.

Veronica Roth

#51. We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

Wallace Stegner

#52. He plans to use every low-down technique he knows to loosen up the suspect, everything from good cop/bad cop to a four-pound bag of oranges that damage the internal organs but don't leave a mark upon the skin. Or, failing that, he'll Google him. Sure

Alan Moore

#53. I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.

Chris Colfer

#54. Live, learn, and leave a beautiful mark.

L.M. Fields

#55. I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

Mark Morris

#56. If you want to leave a big mark in life, make sure you've got a bigger rubber

Benny Bellamacina

#57. Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar ... you never know.

Francis Bacon

#58. In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.

George Carlin

#59. When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best to leave great footprints no matter what!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#60. Powerful people come from all walks of life and leave their mark upon the world in a variety of ways. But one thing is common to them all. They move through the world with pure vitality. It is as though all their switches have been turned on.

Chris Kilham

#61. Not every movement is progress; Some movements are just a way of burning fats!

Israelmore Ayivor

#62. When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

Mark Sheppard

#63. Listen, girl," Aelius sniffed. "The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of words. A girl with a story to tell.

Jay Kristoff

#64. We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people's lives one at a time.

Lyra Parish

#65. To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.

Georges Perec

#66. Frances is a diamond, passed from filthy paw to paw but never diminished. The men who handle her can leave no mark because her worth is far above them. (page 361)

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#67. When these early settlers hunted, they would leave red herring along their trail because the strong smell would confuse wolves, which is the origin of the expression red herring, meaning "a false trail.

Mark Kurlansky

#68. I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

Allison Anders

#69. Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#70. If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

Garth Brooks

#71. There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.'

Luke Scott

#72. A bruise is tender
but does not last,
it leaves me as
I always was.

But a wound I take
much more to heart,
for a scar will always
leave its mark.

And if you should ask
which one you are,
my answer is -
you are a scar.

Lang Leav

#73. Son, a man'd brand
Is his own special mark
That says this is mine, leave it alone.
You hire out to a man,
Ride for his brand
And protect it like it was your own.

Red Steagall

#74. On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

Mark Zero

#75. Fewer things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#76. Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave their mark on. Always on tiptoe, anticipating discovery. Such people find change as necessary as the air they breathe.

Helen Van Slyke

#77. Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds it's way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#78. Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.

Chris Offutt

#79. A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.

Henrik Ibsen

#80. I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.

Julie Moir Messervy

#81. I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was "too ugly").

James Houston Turner

#82. To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.

Laurene Powell Jobs

#83. The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him let us try to keep this in our minds, to his credit

Mark Twain

#84. There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

Mark Lawrence

#85. Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again - not after they'd been apart for so many months.

Rick Riordan

#86. You've got loves of your life and breakups of your life, that kind of thing. They leave a mark. It stays with you, a bad aftertaste.

Jules Asner

#87. A mark.... is left when you complete your internal quest when you leave........

Anonymous

#88. I just want a big HBO special or a network or somebody willing to get behind my work and promote it. The most frustrating thing for me is to have this successful act that resonates across the country, and the network guys just don't get it. Everyone sees it except them. I want to leave a mark.

Gary Owen

#89. I'm very appreciative, I'm feeling very blessed and I like to live in the moment so any person I meet, I start to leave my mark. As far as my work goes, I just hope that people like it when I do it. I certainly give my best and try to learn as much as I can while I'm working or studying for a role.

Ryan Guzman

#90. What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.

Mark McKinnon

#91. Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

Debbie Ford

#92. The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.

Jay Kristoff

#93. I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.

Faith Ringgold

#94. Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

Israelmore Ayivor

#95. I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.

Julian Ovenden

#96. Reading without taking notes, or high lighting your book will allow you to forget too soon. Lesson are so when they leave a mark.

Richard Morin

#97. Throw away too much of your past and you abandon the person who walked those days. When you pare away at yourself you can reinvent, that's true enough, but such whittling always seems to reveal a lesser man, and promises to leave you with nothing at the end.

Mark Lawrence

#98. Express your unconditional love; kindle someone's heart. It will leave a permanent mark; you will never be apart.

Debasish Mridha

#99. A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.

Mark Twain

#100. If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Maya Angelou