Quotes About Leaving The Town

#1. I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Brigitte Bardot

#2. The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.

Mitch Albom

#3. The world is such a big place; staying in one town your whole life, is like never leaving your house.

Chris Geiger

#4. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

Walter Bagehot

#5. One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better

Larry Niven

#6. There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they're good.

David Farland

#7. Upheavals come only when man is set on some particular way of life, and is called to forgo that. When the fixed desire is to do the Father's Will, then there is no real change. The leaving of home, town, country is but as the putting off a garment that has served its useful purpose.

A.J. Russell

#8. But when it comes down to actually packing and leaving, I can't bring myself to do it. Can you see what I mean?If the town's really going to die, then the urge to stay on and see the town to its end wins out.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Having these boys around town in feral packs is like leaving dynamite out in the sun-something mighty useful and powerful turned into an accident waiting to happen.

Daniel H. Wilson

#10. Hamilton was bug-eyed. "Who are those people?"
Jonah held his head. "Man, I should have known it was a mistake to say I'd be leaving town soon! Why do fans have to be so literal?"
"Are they going to let us go get the faxes?" Hamilton asked.
Jonah stared at him. "You're kidding, right?

Gordon Korman

#11. I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Khaled Hosseini

#12. Placing one last kiss over her heart, he lifted his head to find her staring at him with The Look - the one that told a guy when a woman was leaving Let's Screw For Fun City and headed straight for Let's Pick Out China Town - written all over her pretty face.

Gina L. Maxwell

#13. His song was only living aloud,
His work, a singing with his hand!

Sidney Lanier

#14. Jiji: [after hearing that Kiki plans on leaving town for her witch training] I'm going to put my paws together and pray that you're not serious!

Hayao Miyazaki

#15. She was feeling so much all at once and yet she wanted so much more. She wanted Jack - naked - now. "I'm going to leave you, Rose." She heard the words, but it took a moment for the meaning to register. Leaving? Was He leaving?

Mary J. Williams

#16. I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.

Richard Kind

#17. I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.

Daniel Woodrell

#18. We're still not going to talk about it, but just think for a minute, will you? Dragon?" She curled her hands into claws. "Rowr? Me leaving town?

Thea Harrison

#19. Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.

Adam Carolla

#20. Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

Felix Klein

#21. She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?

Gayle Forman

#22. Small gestures can have a big impact.

Julianna Margulies

#23. It's not how big you are, it's how big you play

John Wooden

#24. It was better to be known as the kid who could draw than as the short kid.

Shaun Tan

#25. There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

Carson McCullers

#26. There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.

Michael Maloney

#27. I was leaving this small Arizona town in a few weeks, and I felt less like someone preparing to climb a career ladder than a buzzing electron about to achieve escape velocity, flinging out into a strange and sparkling universe.

Paul Kalanithi

#28. I risk a grin at the thought. Because there's a part of me that likes that idea. Get out of town and never look back.

Daisy Whitney

#29. There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.

Megan Smith

#30. I was leaving.
Finally.
For good.
There was only one way I'd ever return to the town of Christmas, Florida, and it involved my dead body.

Veronica Wolff

#31. I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Lawrence Wright

#32. Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Alison Gopnik

#33. SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I KNOW IT. EVERY TIME I HAD A BAD DREAM I FEEL LIKE LEAVING TOWN. THEN I FEEL THAT SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN. AND THIS IS THE WORST DREAM I'VE EVER HAD IN MY WHOLE LIFE.

Louise Fitzhugh

#34. 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