Quotes About Been Left Behind

#1. Everything in this world is what has been left behind.

Anne Michaels

#2. Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

Sara Sheridan

#3. wanted to know what war was like for those who had been left behind: the women who managed to keep going even as their world fell apart.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#4. There was no sign in the face of any intermediate stages in the aging process, no hint of the man of thirty or forty or fifty who had been left behind. Only adolescence and the age of sixty were represented. It was as though a seventeen-year-old had been withered and bleached by a blast of heat.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#6. My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.

Howard Dean

#7. 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

#8. [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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

John Lennon

#14. Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.

Michio Kushi

#15. He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.

Joe Hill

#16. No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

Jacques Ellul

#17. Our fingers unlace so slowly that I am certain some part of me has been left behind on her fingertips.

Mary E. Pearson

#18. Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the first time in his life, he cried.

Isamu Fukui

#19. You want to change things, Joe, but you can't. Not like this. You can't save what's been left behind. Only what's in front of you.

Maria Rachel Hooley

#20. His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

Adolf Hitler

#21. I love you, she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

Augusten Burroughs

#22. 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

#23. Yet I have changed. I have left childhood behind, and it is true - I have been braver than I thought I could be.

Carrie Anne Noble

#24. I've got four nipples. I think I must have been a twin, but the one other went away and left its nipples behind.

Harry Styles

#25. I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.

Tyler Kent

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.

William Goldman

#31. Sound seemed muted, and night darker, scent and taste dulled. It was as if the world had been robbed of its brightness. He had left me behind to dwell alone in a dimmed and stale place.

Robin Hobb

#32. My primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States. From my first day in office to my last, especially in places that for too long have been left out and left behind.

Hillary Clinton

#33. We've been through a lot, and though many of the wounds have healed, the scars they've left behind still throb every now and then.

Neha Yazmin

#34. Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost
something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here

F Scott Fitzgerald

#35. By then Geoffrey's threadbare soul had been left far behind standing by the side of the highway. Did he feel anything anymore? Warm? Cold? Watching after them, mouth open as if to call out; did he wish at the last moment to have done life differently?

B.P. Gregory

#36. I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were 'I love you.' There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)

Stephen Levine

#37. When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.

Mizuki Nomura

#38. At some point Levi had put his left arm around her and pulled her back against his chest - she'd been fidgeting and rubbing her back on the wall, and Levi just reached behind her and pulled her into him.

Rainbow Rowell

#39. 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

#40. Time heals all wounds. Il tempo guarisce tutti i mali. It's been said time and time again, but what they don't talk about are the jagged scars left behind. What they don't tell you is that sometimes, when ignored, the wounds fester

J.M. Darhower

#41. The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

Howard Schultz

#42. We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.

Steve Squyres

#43. You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind!

Diana Ross

#44. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

Margaret Atwood

#45. To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?

Victor Hugo

#46. A man who hasn't left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive.

Hanif Kureishi

#47. It has been said that with every great love we have, a little piece of our souls is left behind after the cleaving.

Emma Shane

#48. I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

Joanne Harris

#49. If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

Lars Von Trier

#50. He asked me not to kill myself - asked, not told. His wife had done that, he told me, and it was in a sense the ultimate act of selfishness since it left behind untold and endless suffering for those who had witnessed it and been unable to do anything to prevent it. And so I remained alive.

Mary Balogh

#51. The first time someone I loved left me behind ... I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

Jodi Picoult

#52. He had been fashioned when the sky kissed the sun. Just as I had been fashioned when the sky kissed the moon. The sky, like most immortals, is a fickle bastard who took as he pleased and then paid no attention to the offspring he left behind.

Kristin Cast

#53. Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Elena Ferrante

#54. I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

Robert Benchley

#55. You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

T.D. Jakes

#56. The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

Maria De Medeiros

#57. The man had been blind since birth, but he said that he could see the world through the fragrant trails and traces that people's feelings and thoughts had left behind. Che could sense whether a room had been loved or lived or argued in.

Nina George

#58. I'm sure it was a good house in its time as well, but sometimes what is left behind when something has been lost is even better than the thing that came before.

Susanna Kearsley

#59. Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an unusual case in which the students are engaged in the performances, but the high stakes have been displaced onto the teachers who are preparing their charges for the exams.

James M. Lang

#60. Such uncanny serenity actually frightened him, making him think that perhaps this was a surface impression left behind after any amount of unspeakable viciousness had been digested, or else settled down inside her as a kind of sediment.

Han Kang

#61. The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#62. There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C ... (before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy ... Well, this one left them all behind.

William Goldman

#63. Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

Rafael Palmeiro

#64. For over 200 years this has been a special country. A unique place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. But now millions of Americans feel like they're being left behind. Insecure in their future and unsafe in the face of terrorism.

Marco Rubio

#65. But I couldn't quite believe that sex was the motivating force behind all human behavior, and that I was left out of the great cultural conversation because I had not been initiated into the mystery.

Carlene Bauer

#66. These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

Anton Chekhov

#67. My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Tom Glazer

#68. I dream of where I am, and what lies before me. I do not dream of where I've been or what I've left behind. I tell myself that this is what I've wanted from the moment I was captured, and that I should be happy.

Lauren DeStefano

#69. The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

John Jakes

#70. He had been the person who took. He'd been the one who was taken. And he'd been the one left behind. Next he would find out what it was like to be all three at once.

Adam Johnson

#71. But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything behind.

Lois Lowry

#72. Life is like a book. Some of the pages you want to rip out and others you want to keep. I've been ripping out a lot of pages lately, getting rid of the ugly stuff. The stuff that's left behind isn't as bad as I thought it was.

R.K. Ryals

#73. Present and yet remote, a living vision of that which has already been left far behind by the flowing streams of Time.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#74. I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life - as something I have passed, rather than have actually been - and almost think of him as of someone else.

Charles Dickens

#75. Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

Arthur Golden

#76. That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

Laura Dave

#77. My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.

Nina Hoss

#78. the worlds that they thought they'd left behind reclaimed each of them, I occupied the place where their dreams had been.

Barack Obama

#79. There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

Mark Jackson

#80. But those days of being too terrified to move or breathe were left behind in my childhood. I've been through too much and it has hardened some primal part of me that no longer panics.

Patricia Cornwell

#81. One of life's most painful mysteries was that time moved on, with or without you. Those left behind loved and laughed and resumed living as if you'd never been at all.

Laura Frantz

#82. Part of him was missing, a gaping hole where his heart had once been. It was the part he had left behind with her, the part she carried with her wherever she went.

J.M. Darhower

#83. In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.

Najib Razak