Leaving Something Behind Quotes

#1. The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.

Wendy Mass

#2. 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

#3. I ached with loss that I'd never allowed myself to feel. As if I was leaving something important behind. And that something was me.

A. Lynn

#4. I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.

Quentin Blake

#5. The look of someone who knows that in taking what she wants, she will be leaving something of herself behind.

Varian Krylov

#6. Do you think that much power comes without sacrifice? Did you think you could become you without leaving something, without leaving me, behind?

Rainbow Rowell

#7. 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

#8. At midnight, Cinderella ran away from the ball, leaving behind glass slipper. The doors swing slowly close behind, shutting out the sound of the party, and I realize I've lost something far more important than a shoe. I've lost my best friend.

Donna Cooner

#9. Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Howe

#10. She was there. She'd been in his arms. They'd been together again. They'd kissed and he'd felt something he would've thought impossible. And now he was running away. Leaving her behind.

James Dashner

#11. 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

#12. People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead - because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he'll move heaven and earth to make me dead.

Ilona Andrews

#13. And our marriage dissolved, like margarita salt on the tongue, leaving behind the bitter aftertaste of something that started out sweet but ended sour.

Tracy Brogan

#14. 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

#15. Whatever happened behind now was simply that: behind. Lyra had left it. She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny was the light that bathed them.

Philip Pullman

#16. Powerlessness does not mean the weakness of resignation or the passivity of an 'anything goes'. Powerlessness does not mean inability ,not having the capacity. Powerlessness means rather leaving power behind , something as disempowering.

Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback

#17. Shadows go in front of you, leading into your future, and trail behind you, leaving a part of you in the past. They are clearest when we are in the light, and disappear when we lose ourselves in darkness.

Kiersten White

#18. So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.

Jonathan Stroud

#19. An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind ... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

Haruki Murakami

#20. Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staffroom fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him.

J.K. Rowling

#21. In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful.

Tom DeLonge

#22. As I drove off, leaving an oil stain behind me, I caught a glimpse of my smile in the rear view, and at that moment I remembered how life was supposed to feel.

Gina Holmes

#23. I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

Steven Millhauser

#24. Leaving the vehicle, its slaghtered passengers, and another small piece of my humanity behind.

Julie Kagawa