Top 100 Leave A Mark Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I want to leave a mark.
But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.
John Green
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. My prayer is to leave a mark of hope and love in every corner of the universe.
Euginia Herlihy
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. It seems fitting that the blow would leave a mark on both of us. That's how the world works.
Veronica Roth
#16. We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
Wallace Stegner
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Life is so bloody hard. I don't want the whole struggle to be pointless. If I'm going to get crap thrown at me from great heights my whole life, well, I want to damn well make sure I leave a mark on this world in exchange for all the misery.
Holly Bourne
#28. The one thing every creator wants to do, without question, is leave a mark.
Jemir Robert Johnson
#29. Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.
Eve Ensler
#30. You said you want to leave a mark on my heart. You did; a burning pain that won't leave me wherever I turn.
Katja Michael
#31. Having been a demon curse, however brief, should leave a mark. A streak of silver hair, or bewitching eyes. Maybe crows on one's roof or a hound from hell at your heel. Blowing out my breath I stood and squinted at my reflection. A black eye. Swell.
Kim Harrison
#32. How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
Craig Thompson
#33. I was born Ezeogo Igariwey to live my life a legacy for the world,like a wound that healed with a scar that remains."My legacy will leave a mark on the world and I shall never be forgetten for my good,bad,and ugly deeds.
Tupac Shakur
#34. Some people come into your life and leave a mark.
Sara Zarr
#35. everything you do in life will leave a mark
Paulo Coelho
#36. Despite his words, Lee knew that with someone like Wren, the amount of time didn't really matter all that much. She was the kind of person who could leave a mark with just one meeting.
Stephanie Fournet
#37. He'd been so angry at her -always pushing his buttons, that girl. But then he'd taken her into his arms, and all that anger had blazed into a darker, hotly possessive need that had urged him to bend his head, bite down on the throbbing pulse in her neck, leave a mark.
Nalini Singh
#39. Beauty is seen in repetition; keep repeating your beauty even if your beauty is not all that beautiful, you shall still leave a mark and there shall come a moment when the beauty will be seen
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.
Rigoberta Menchu
#41. Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
Paul Simon
#42. I want to be respected. I want to be powerful. And yes, I want to be special. I want to leave a mark on this world so no one forgets who I was.
Morgan Rhodes
#43. I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.
Charles Saatchi
#44. The cane leaves a mark on your flesh for a few hours, a day or two. The good answers to the questions leave a mark on your brain for many years, sometimes even for life, my father said.
Teodor Flonta
#45. Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.
Jay-Z
#46. Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
Sophie Swetchine
#48. What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world? Our hottest arguments were always about how we could contribute. We did not care about the rewards. We were young and earnest.
Wallace Stegner
#49. This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.
Kipchoge Keino
#51. Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.
Enock Maregesi
#52. You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#53. Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.
Nora Roberts
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Before leaving the world, leave a profound positive mark of love upon the world.
Debasish Mridha
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark; leave a positive legacy!
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark.
L.M. Fields
#72. 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
#73. 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.
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Shit, oh dear! Leave it to the government to turn a pandemic into an epic horror movie. The
P. Mark DeBryan
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Live, learn, and leave a beautiful mark.
L.M. Fields
#90. I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.
Mark Morris
#91. If you want to leave a big mark in life, make sure you've got a bigger rubber
Benny Bellamacina
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Not every movement is progress; Some movements are just a way of burning fats!
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
