Top 17 Quotes About Leaving Your Family Behind
#1. I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
Chief Joseph
#2. I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond
Carolyn Jessop
#3. Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.
Lauren Jackson
#4. If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of the person you are; and that will make you less of a mother.
Jean Marzollo
#5. There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.
William Lyon Phelps
#6. If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
Jon Foreman
#7. Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Pliny The Elder
#8. It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#10. A society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
Dan Simmons
#11. In secret pleasure - secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away
Emily Bronte
#12. Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form - a very learnable art form.
Nina Garcia
#13. If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.
Sammi Hanratty
#14. Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.
Elizabeth George
#15. What would you do?
Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?
Tim O'Brien
#16. Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors
Laila Ibrahim
#17. This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants,
Hadley Freeman
