Top 100 Left Behind Quotes
#1. Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten
Lilo And Stitch
#2. I am proud to represent the capital of Kerala, a state that in so many ways is a trailblazer for India's progress, though in other respects it seems to have been left behind in the race for 21st century development.
Shashi Tharoor
#3. Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind.
Ellen J. Barrier
#4. I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use
Dave Barry
#5. The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
Milan Kundera
#6. And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.
Jay Asher
#7. But you'll see, you can feel time on the wind it whips up as it passes. We don't worry about time or the wind. Nothing can touch us any more. As long as people remember us, we are here. Anyway, it's the wind that tells us, lets us know about the thigs we've left behind.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#8. Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.
Stephen Levine
#9. [T]here is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers of consciousness toward a reality that seems less real than the dream-state that has been left behind. I was such a child.
Anne Fadiman
#10. And I knew that tone, the pleading, the fear that was sitting like a spiked ball in his chest. He'd been left behind too, maybe more than I had.
Lili St. Crow
#11. And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.
Rufus Wainwright
#12. You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'
Ted Danson
#13. Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin Powell
#14. My fear didn't want to be left behind, so it came with me.
Maria Duenas
#15. By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.
Lisa J. Shultz
#16. Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he left behind? An England torn between Catholic and Protestant.
Ella March Chase
#17. That's what no one tells you. It's harder to be the one left behind.
Kami Garcia
#18. Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.
Grace Meng
#19. The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.
Meir Kahane
#20. We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.
George Steiner
#21. I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't ... don't want to be the one left behind.
Samantha Sotto
#22. It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
Travis Tritt
#23. Life was fragile, and the shadows left behind touched those who came after. Hooves
Kristen Heitzmann
#24. I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind
by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.
Lauren Oliver
#25. I'd come to terms with what I did long ago. The bodies, the blood, the tears of those left behind. Even the fact I was probably going to burn in hell didn't bother me. Much.
Jennifer Estep
#26. I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.
Mark Twain
#27. The greatest victories are therefore never without the shadow of loss; every path you take, no matter how lofty or effulgent, aches not only with the memory of what you left behind, but with the ghosts of all the untaken paths, now never to be taken, running parallel.
Paul Murray
#28. Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.
Donna Farhi
#29. Any spot on this planet was going to be infinitely better than the world they'd left behind. For the first time in his life, he was free.
Kass Morgan
#30. The street resembled fairgrounds deserted in haste. There was a little of everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. All the things one planned to take along and finally left behind. They had ceased to matter.
Elie Wiesel
#31. A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.
Peter Lynch
#32. I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.
John F. Kerry
#33. The welts and scars left behind were pieces of me.
Rae Z. Ryans
#34. I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind.
Adam Carolla
#35. I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.
Tyler Kent
#36. On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.
Marcel Proust
#37. In the hurtling pronghorn, the vanished predators have left behind a heartrending spectacle. Through the smoking displays of wild abandon runs a desperate spirit, resigned to racing pickup trucks in its eternal longing for cheetahs.
William Stolzenburg
#38. Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#39. The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#40. I have come to understand that death, for the sick, is not so hard to endure. For us, eventually, our pain ends, we go to a better place. But for those left behind, their pain only magnifies." Poppy
Tillie Cole
#41. Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind.
Stefan Emunds
#42. Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.
John Kline
#43. They did what they did, and moved forward despite whatever trail of ashes they left behind.
Charles Frazier
#44. I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.
Phil Ochs
#45. I am just like my mother. She raised me to love and take care of animals, especially the ones that need it the most and so I started Eddie's Rescue Ranch. We take in animals that need extra care and attention and the animals that get left behind.
Kelly Clarkson
#46. If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get.
Stephenie Meyer
#47. The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
Eric Hoffer
#48. Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.
Ellen Hopkins
#50. The thing about having friends who are as close as blood, as true as your own heart, as the twins had been to her, is you don't bother much with other people. And if you have the misfortune to get left behind, well, you've made yourself a lonely nest to live in.
Laini Taylor
#51. unlike most Californians who fled their state and moved here and then wanted to make Montana into a version of what they left behind.
Dean Koontz
#52. It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.
Jay Posey
#53. The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It's in our hearts.
Abbi Glines
#54. Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.
Daniel Woodrell
#55. Not all is silent in the halls of the dead and the rooms of ruin. Even now some of the stuff the Old Ones left behind still works. And that's really the horror of it, wouldn't you say? Yes. The exact horror of it.
Stephen King
#56. The miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable, lower than a flattened sloppy joe left behind on a lunchroom tray. I was alone.
Kami Garcia
#57. I shall no longer fear what's on the roads ahead of me ... nor shall I be in despair about what I left behind. I shall live in the present moment and strive for greatness and work to brighten humanity with each step I take.
Timothy Pina
#58. This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.
Kinky Friedman
#59. Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.
Conor McGregor
#60. Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#61. Society has always been the free man's greatest enemy. And the free man has been society's greatest friend. How did society treat Jesus, Socrates, Galileo, or Martin Luther King? Yet look what they have left behind.
Laurence Boldt
#62. Your life is so short that you are nothing but the trace you left behind yourself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.
Craig Childs
#64. Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.
Edward Glaeser
#65. They travel through the night on the wings of heavenly stallions bringing hope and new faith to those left behind. Even though they are free, they never forget their past and spend their lives trying to bring peace to others. (Brotherhood Chanson)
Kinley MacGregor
#66. The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
Edmund Morgan
#67. And in the space he left behind, in the loss of him, she felt an actual physical pain in her belly. She'd lost a friend and she didn't have many of those.
Jenny Downham
#68. Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief.
The Girl You Left Behind
Jojo Moyes
#69. Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? Well I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind. You know that was the last thing on my mind.
Phil Ochs
#70. That tug against my heart, the painless, invisible cord trying to pull me forward, rips something from me like the shirt being torn from my back, and I scream as part of me is left behind.
Celine Kiernan
#71. The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.
Margaret Thatcher
#72. If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.
John Lennon
#74. I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.
Thomas Friedman
#75. It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that."
"Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam.
"But I am going to Mordor."
"I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#76. Ben Says: Your greatness is in your successful future ahead of you. Not in the failures in the past you left behind.
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#77. Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
Thomas A. Edison
#78. I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Terry Pratchett
#79. There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.
Julia Green
#80. People break all the time, no lie there and when that wretched break happens something is usually lost, left behind confused or some is hurt, a member of the family, a child, pure and innocent of the cruel world, dangerous adult men and women.
Abigail George
#82. death was a natural phenomenon, albeit a sorrowful one for those left behind, but one that every man and woman must accept as the price we pay for life.
John Boyne
#83. After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.
Susanna Kearsley
#84. There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place - then it won't make a damn.
Ken Kesey
#85. Maybe you only ever notice the distance when it's you who's being left behind.
Julie Murphy
#86. Death is never swift ... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After
Samantha Sotto
#87. We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
Bob Filner
#88. No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than a one-size-fits-all accountability system developed by Washington bureaucrats.
John Kline
#90. What is the most wondrous thing on earth? Each day countless humans enter the Temple of Death, yet the ones left behind continue to live as though they were immortal ... In
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#92. A people's legitimacy is derived from its artifacts. Even a relationship isn't a relationship unless it's left behind its trash.
Joshua Cohen
#93. She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#94. Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.
Paula Wall
#95. That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!
Thomas Hardy
#96. He followed his daily routine, and she followed hers. But without her there, Tengo noticed a human-shaped void she had left behind.
Haruki Murakami
#97. As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.
Ovid
#98. I collected the papers, wrapped them back in the rubber band, and felt a small grief, like a person who discovers, upon returning from a trip, that something has been left behind and there is no way now to retrieve it.
Mitch Albom
#99. Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
Paul De Man
#100. Only friends get left behind. Enemies are always at your heels. The
Joe Abercrombie
