Leave Something Behind Quotes

#1. I'm just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that's what I want. I don't want my kids to be embarrassed by anything I've done.

Johnny Depp

#2. You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

Roone Arledge

#3. I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.

Bruce Springsteen

#4. The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

George MacDonald

#5. You always leave something behind when you start something new.

Paul Acampora

#6. life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind

Herman Raucher

#7. People change us. It is a rare, if not an impossible occurrence, that we come out of relationships unscathed. In our dealings with people we take something with us and we leave something behind. Some people are haunted more than others, either by the sweet perfume of another or the stink of regret.

Donna Lynn Hope

#8. To go forward you have to leave something behind

Steve Jobs

#9. It's part of growing up, I suppose ... you always have to leave something behind you.

Neil Gaiman

#10. After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.

Marie Lu

#11. I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

Nellie L. McClung

#12. No one dies so poor that he does not leave something behind.

Blaise Pascal

#13. I did leave something behind with you: my heart. Of course, you didn't know it at the time. Maybe I didn't either. What have you done with my heart, Leo? Have you taken good care of it? Have you misplaced it?

Jerry Spinelli

#14. I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.

Temple Grandin

#15. I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

Tyra Banks

#16. It's called "being an artist" for a reason; it's something YOU ARE. It's how you live. It's WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

Charlotte Eriksson

#17. What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs.

Cindy McCormick Martinusen

#18. You don't have to have it all figured out now or ever. We're all just bumbling through, really. But you'll find something to be passionate about. You just need to leave high school and your town behind.

Matthew Quick

#19. I will have that, Colin thought. I will have it. I will. With Katherine. But I won't be only that, he resolved. I will leave behind something more that one photo album where I always look old.

John Green

#20. It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.

Mary Butts

#21. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

Ray Charles

#22. When we get over something, we move on, we put it behind us. Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us? I think we take them with us. They accompany us. They remain with us, if in another form. We have to learn to live with them and their deaths.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#23. Millions of people walked through their lives numb, dying to feel something, to feel alive. To be chosen by Cordova for a film was an opportunity for just that, not simply for fame and fortune, but to leave their old selves behind like discarded clothes.

Marisha Pessl

#24. If I see a phrase that strikes me as ugly, I'll delete it. Or, if I find a way to say something a bit more freshly than it was expressed originally, I'll do it. Ultimately, you want to try to leave behind the best possible paragraph or sentence.

Tim O'Brien

#25. So did Caspian leave this behind when he went off to college or something?'
'No.'
Don't say it. Please don't say it.
'He died a little more than two years ago in a car accident. Right after Halloween

Jessica Verday

#26. I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they felt like there was impulse they wanted to follow, if it was taking the scene out of order or adding something, that you should always feel free to do that.

Lynn Shelton

#27. I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too."
What?"
I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

Mitch Albom

#28. It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it's so much better than before because of something you did.

Dan Groat

#29. She was ready to be a fugitive with him for the rest of her life - 'Whither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall be my people' - and when a Parisienne is ready to leave Paris behind forever, that's something. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#30. Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#31. The tea-bag is a vile invention suggestive to my perhaps overly squeamish eye of something a careless person might leave behind unflushed in the lavatory.

John Banville

#32. Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

Thomas Mars

#33. This is why she wanted to make pictures, to have something to leave behind even after she was gone, something that showed what she had observed in a way that no one else had and no one else would after her.

Edwidge Danticat

#34. Remember that when God calls us to leave behind something, it means He has something better in store for us. Allow Him to replace the old with the new today!

Paige Omartian

#35. I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

Thomas Jane

#36. If you simply kept your eyes open, it seemed, you just might find something valuable in the most unlikely of places. The trick was to recognize a good thing when you saw it, no matter how odd or worthless it might at first appear, no matter who else might just walk away and leave it behind.

Daniel James Brown

#37. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do, you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Alexander Graham Bell

#38. Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#39. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life? - Qyburn

George R R Martin

#40. After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.

Sandra Dallas

#41. 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

#42. but there will be other things, new things. That's how it is with change. You leave one thing behind, and there's something else to take it's place.

Deborah Ellis

#43. You think the worst is behind you, but it's never behind you. In fact, saying something is the worst does not leave room for all the bad stuff that can follow it. You say the pain is nine, but you mean ten. You leave room.

Jennifer Gilmore

#44. Nothing is ever the same. Nothing is permanent. Nothing can be trusted to be there. Nothing is safe, including home. Why lie to yourself? Every day we leave something, someone, some observation behind.

Diane Keaton

#45. Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.

David Baldacci

#46. 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

#47. The most important attitude, when we propose ourselves to learn something, is to be prepared to leave our present identity behind, in our beliefs and way we handle personal experiences.

Daniel Marques

#48. There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Jay Weatherill

#49. You ready to leave now? I don't find the idea of fucking you against that wall behind you even slightly unpleasant. Exhibitionism has never been a problem for me. Is that something you'd like to try?

R.K. Lilley

#50. Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No."
"Leave me," said Gavriel.
... "Shut up or I might," she told him.

Holly Black

#51. We protect. That's what it means to be a Lucidite. If something happened to one of you, I'd willingly walk through fire and suffer torment to bring you back. We don't leave each other behind and we don't turn our backs when someone needs us most.

Sarah Noffke

#52. Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out.

Toni Morrison

#53. Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful.

John Fire Lame Deer

#54. Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Cyril Connolly

#55. Don't leave your life a blank page. Make each word count and leave behind something worth reading.

Mae East

#56. For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Anton Chekhov

#57. It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

Russ Feingold

#58. Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

Paddy Ashdown

#59. Those who write them do," Ferus said. "They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature." He sniffed. "Most untidy, really - but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole.

Jim Butcher

#60. A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations.

C.K. Webb

#61. We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Pascal Mercier

#62. Your life isn't something you can leave behind or run away from, because you are it. People, on the other hand, are another matter altogether.

Santa Montefiore

#63. We'd been drinking for something like fourteen hours straight when the moment had come, the bell, so to speak, was tolling, and it was time for me to leave Oslo behind.

Loren Niva

#64. 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

#65. Those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men leave behind them something real and warmly personal ... the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

James Thurber