Top 78 Leave Them Behind Quotes
#1. The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.
Nick Cannon
#2. Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.
Jessica Fortunato
#3. You think you can get rid of things, and people too
leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.
Margaret Atwood
#4. He had found his monsters, and now was the time to leave them behind.
Tim Lebbon
#5. When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
Benjamin Carson
#6. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?
Helen Hollick
#7. Sometimes it hurts to lose things, to leave them behind. We can't really forget them, so they linger. A twinge here, a sharp reminder there. The things we gain from the loss puts perspective on that pain. We can try to bury the pain, mask it, ignore it.
Melissa Foster
#8. No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.
John Perkins
#9. ...the Party always makes you spend a bit of time getting to know people on the ground before you leave them behind, so if you do well enough to stand for election you can claim to have grassroots support.
Jeremy Tiang
#10. Words do not always need a destination.
We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings.
Running around headless in the vague zone.
And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.
David Foenkinos
#11. 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
#12. If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
Helena Blavatsky
#13. Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
Thomas Browne
#14. Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.
Darren Shan
#15. And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I shall get husbands for them before the winter is over.'
"I thank you for my share of the favour,' said Elizabeth, "But I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands.
Jane Austen
#16. Every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them.
Reggie Joiner
#17. I don't realize how badly I've needed to say those words until they've left my mouth. They hang in the air. And all I want now is to be away from them. To leave the truth behind. Because if I can't do anything about it, I certainly don't want to face it.
Lauren DeStefano
#18. You are always someone's example. Someone is always trying to follow in your footsteps. What will you leave them that is behind you?
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#19. All cruelty and passion must burn away at last to leave behind them only pity.
Anya Seton
#20. Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them.
Eugene H. Peterson
#21. 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
#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. If you have nothing to leave behind you, you can at least leave your dreams; someone else may use them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Well, you devious little woman you. Do you know what I do to wily women?
"You ... leave them panting and oneless after a world-class orgasm?" she guessed.
"Why yes. Yes, ma'am, I do." Picking her up, I carried her back to my room and kicked the door shut behind me.
Linda Kage
#25. The ever-new passions which consumed her gave to her life the appearance of those clouds which float in the heavens, reflecting sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blackness of the tempest, and which leave no traces upon the earth behind them but devastation and death.
Alexandre Dumas
#26. It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
Hans Jonas
#27. Maldonado's face was ghastly. 'That' she said, pointing below the bed where the cat lurked, 'and that' - pointing to what lay on the floor - 'prove it was no dream. Do dreams leave marks behind them?' ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
Cornell Woolrich
#28. You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#29. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Francis Of Assisi
#30. The young man rushed toward them. "Stand and fight!" he was shouting. "Is running away the Yoshioka version of the Art of War? I personally don't want to kill you, but my Drying Pole's still thirsty. The least you can do, cowards that you are, is leave your heads behind.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#31. You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.
Sissy Spacek
#32. At times an obstacle on your way may be so stupid that you may not want to deal with it; jump over it and save your time! There is no need to deal with every stupid thing or every stupid person; jump over them, leave them quite behind you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.
Martin Luther
#34. 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
#35. And every mistake. But every good thing we do as well. They are immortal, every single touch we leave behind. Even if nobody sees them or remembers them, that doesn't matter. That trail will always be what happened, what we did, every choice. The past lives on forever. There's no changing it.
Hugh Howey
#36. My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.
Kelly Reilly
#37. Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.
Jenny Erpenbeck
#38. It's just as important to work on the little muscle groups as well as the big muscle groups. People, when they train, go to gyms. I call them 'nightclub bodies' - ginormous up top, and legs are little sticks. You see a lot of people, and they forget you can't leave the little muscles behind.
Misty May-Treanor
#39. Everyone is born and they die, but it's the memories they leave behind that define them and let them live on than others.
Judi Fennell
#40. Dear girl with the red scarf,
People will come and go in our lives. Most of them we won't give a second thought to as soon as the door closes behind them. But I had always imagined that you would leave the deepest, everlasting mark.
-Mr. Universe.
Maria La Serra
#41. Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
Noah Feldman
#42. The family behind us wants to leave." He twists to peer through the back windshield. "They already have two kids. Let's follow them home." "Let's not.
Elle Kennedy
#43. She saw the picture of idle fishing boats tied up at Peterhead; further gloom for Scotland and for a way of life that had produced such a strong culture. Fishermen had composed their songs; but what culture would a generation of computer operators leave behind them?
Alexander McCall Smith
#44. The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion
they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#45. Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
William Penn
#46. Life will throw all kinds of obstacles our way. It's our job to scramble over them and hunt for the little miracles tucked away, then leave some reminders for the people that follow behind us.
Emily Page
#47. STOP letting your troubles define you! RISE above them by choosing to move on and leave them all behind you.
Timothy Pina
#48. In the town, children go down on their backs in the drifted snow and move their arms and, when they rise, leave behind them impressions, mysterious and ominous, of winged creatures.
John Gardner
#49. Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
John Tillotson
#50. And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.
Woodrow Wilson
#51. Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
George D. Prentice
#53. I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
Prince Charles
#54. Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives
Charlotte Gray
#55. Our sorrows, like the passing keels of the vessels upon the sea, leave a silver line of holy light behind them "afterwards." It is peace, sweet, deep peace, which follows the horrible turmoil which once reigned in our tormented, guilty souls.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#56. Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape.
Jacqueline Winspear
#57. You can't talk to people like that. Soldiers, corporate execs, politicians. All you can do is kill them, and even that rarely makes things any better. They just leave their shit behind, and someone else to carry on.
Richard K. Morgan
#58. We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.
John F. Kennedy
#59. Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#60. The bible says that a good shepard, even if he has one hundred sheep, if he loses but one of them in the wilderness, he must leave the other ninety-nine behind to go looking for that one.
Bree Despain
#61. It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination.
Thornton Wilder
#62. Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them.
Jim Butcher
#63. It was possible to leave things behind - places, people, memories - at least for a time. But places held tight to the things that had happened in them, and to come again to a place you had once lived was to be brought face-to-face with what you had done there and who you had been.
Diana Gabaldon
#64. I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.
Xavier Dolan
#65. Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.
Terry Pratchett
#66. Living is hard
dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really
except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.
Rachel Van Dyken
#67. The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
Mary Doria Russell
#68. 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
#69. I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.
Margaret Heffernan
#70. The people who reach the end of their days must leave others to live out the end of their days without them.
It is very, very difficult to be the one who has to stay behind and live without them.
Fredrik Backman
#71. People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Joel Osteen
#72. What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
Ann Brashares
#73. 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
#74. But some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.
Marguerite Henry
#75. What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.
Wei Wu Wei
#76. Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.
Max De Pree
#77. 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
#78. When you miss someone, they leave a person-shaped hole behind in the world that nothing can ever fill. If you don't keep thinking about them, the edges of the hole shrink and fade. You can't let go or the last of them disappears.
Martha Brockenbrough
