Top 72 Quotes About Leaving Somewhere
#1. It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.
John Updike
#2. People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst.
Jonathan Tropper
#3. God, how I hate it when somebody yells "Good luck!" at me when I'm leaving somewhere. It's depressing.
J.D. Salinger
#4. In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.
James Dickey
#5. The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the back pew.
Diana Gabaldon
#6. Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?
Sara Gruen
#7. Why should I run all the way down to 17th St. to buy dirty, badly made books whenI can buy clean, beautiful ones
from you without leaving the typewriter? From whereI sit,London's a lot closer than 17th Street.
Helene Hanff
#8. The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
Michael Bloomberg
#9. We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be with our King!
David Berg
#10. She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
Gregory Maguire
#11. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in.
Tim O'Brien
#12. I would never even consider leaving you. No matter who else abandons me...or looks down on me...or spits in my face...I will stay with you to the end.
Hotaru Odagiri
#13. He wasn't sure what was worse: leaving or the anticipation of leaving.
Maggie Stiefvater
#14. Loretta didn't have much time left for mothering, and once I was old enough to fry my own eggs, she started leaving me home with the cat. Then the cat ran away; she didn't notice. Poor
Robin Wasserman
#17. I believe the ones who stand up for what we say, which is stay inside the Eurozone, try to fix some things in the memorandum and try to help Greece get out of this mess without leaving the Eurozone, without leaving Europe.
Eva Kaili
#18. How had I lost so much in such a short period of time? It would seem like leaving your family, living in some foreign place, and being separated from the person you love should be events that take years to roll into place, not just a day.
Kiera Cass
#20. It flopped into my leg, leaving a vile, dark smear of disgusting on my jeans. Brilliant.
Kiersten White
#21. Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.
Haruki Murakami
#22. I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren't many.
John Connolly
#23. Does anybody regret leaving a hotel room? Does anybody, who has a home, a real home somewhere, want to stay there? Does anybody look back with affection, or even disgust, at a hotel room when they leave it?
Toni Morrison
#24. Who I was ad who I had beed disconnected, leaving me stranded somewhere in the middle.
Alexandra Bracken
#25. And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.
Charles Lindbergh
#26. He gathered me closer, kissed my neck, then spoke in a low voice next to my ear. I figure, see, if you find yourself getting more attached to the two of us than you planned, maybe you won't think about picking up and leaving to start another life somewhere else.
Jenn Bennett
#27. Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.
Caleb Carr
#28. I realized if I didn't just go, I'd never go. Going was the key. It didn't matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis
Jayden Hunter
#29. I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
Tao Lin
#30. I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.
John Denver
#31. Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is
how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?
Dan Buettner
#32. With a quick check, he pulls out onto the road and we roar off in a trail of dust, leaving my stomach still somewhere on his driveway and my heart completely in his hands.
Samantha Towle
#33. If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
Larry Page
#34. My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
Twyla Tharp
#35. We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
#36. Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it
unable quite to let each other go.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#37. If I had to spend an hour getting ready every time I went somewhere, I wouldn't bother leaving the house.
Donna Joy Usher
#38. Suddenly I am crushed by the simplicity of it all: he is leaving.
James Salter
#39. If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends' houses so they don't see its backside.
Jeremy Clarkson
#41. Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.
Eriq La Salle
#43. Are you the dove or the statue?
Soaring with the eagles leaving the turkeys behind.
May our highest Supreme Being be with you and give you lots of Real Love and Happiness in your life.
Harry Monarch
#44. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
Robert Jordan
#45. Though the rain had pitter-pattered, then pelted the carriages during the drive had stopped, the ground was wet and boggy, sucking at feet as though hoping to keep anyone from ever leaving the estate.
Jessica Lawson
#46. Now I know for sure the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone.
Elizabeth Alexander
#47. Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
Barry Gibb
#48. Leaving senior year like:
its hard to leave to you leave, then its the eased goddam thing you've ever done.
John Green
#49. I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.
Lou Reed
#50. Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.
Nicholas Sparks
#51. Crinoline was so wide that she parted the crowd wherever she walked, leaving an aisle of space behind her.
Eleanor Catton
#52. So long as you minded your manners and kept your weapons concealed, they let you enter and leave in peace. Those who broke the one house rule of "No Spill Blood" quickly found themselves leaving in pieces.' (Gallagher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
Tayari Jones
#54. My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity
a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.
James Boswell
#55. the door with a little more force than necessary and stepped inside the cool air-conditioned living room, leaving behind the
Kennedy Layne
#56. We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.
Akiane Kramarik
#57. Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.
Irakli Okruashvili
#58. Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.
Margaret Atwood
#59. Was it so wrong to relish the feeling anyway? To enjoy the way it lingered, leaving her with a wistful awareness, a pleasant unease, as if she had forgotten to do something? Yes, it probably was wrong. But she did not wish it away.
Julie Klassen
#60. within the institution, breaking out into new worlds, leaving behind the shrine which had become a place of worldly power and resistance to his purposes.
N. T. Wright
#61. She looked at him - those wide blue eyes - with sort of an odd, glazed look. Not with the adoration or wonder that you might expect, more like she'd been drinking and would be leaving as soon as she found her car keys.
Christopher Moore
#62. Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving ... Always moving on.
Karen Kingsbury
#63. When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
John Cage
#64. Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.
Erykah Badu
#65. If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best.
Steven Moffat
#66. Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Rita Mae Brown
#67. He dressed quickly in silence, refusing her tissues. He shakily pulled a wad of uncounted notes from his wallet, abandoned them in the no man's land between, and escaped in an indecent haste, leaving the shameful tableau in his wake.
Darren White
#68. Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.
Barack Obama
#69. Someone was always leaving
and never coming back.
The wooden houses wait like old wives
along this road; they are everywhere,
abandoned, leaning, turning gray.
Lisel Mueller
#70. Simply by eliminating description, the screenwriter can work his way through the entire plot in a single morning, leaving the afternoon free for screenwriter leisure activities such as drugs.
Dave Barry
#71. A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.
Anne Truitt
#72. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
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