What We Have Left Behind Quotes

#1. What we have left behind is beautiful, captivating, and inviting. What lies ahead of us is magnificent and mind boggling.

Debasish Mridha

#2. What lies ahead is far greater than what we have left behind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. It was high time that she left behind these silly daydreams, before she became odd and ended up locked in some attic, collecting bits of string and candle wax and muttering.

Laura Kinsale

#5. Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

David Zinczenko

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

Anne Michaels

#7. I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

Flavor Flav

#8. I can't believe you ran out on me, and I'm pretty sure you left your balls behind.

J.L. Weil

#9. There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

Jeff Olson

#10. It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space
that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

Peter S. Beagle

#11. Life is measured by - the ones left behind? Or his Faith? By Love? or by the people aside you? Or it has no meaning at all?

Aman Jassal

#12. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

Thomas Gray

#13. In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.

Bethany Brookbank

#14. People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

Elizabeth Edwards

#15. Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isn't just the loss of one life, it's the loss of two lives - one who found another world, perhaps...and one who is left behind.

Faraaz Kazi

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.

Pratibha Patil

#19. Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called the vacuum which God left behind.

Billy Graham

#20. What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

Heraclitus

#21. What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.

Claire McCaskill

#22. Life is a wonderful journey
no one knows what will happen in the future
we have to go ahead of the moon and stars
we have to reach beyond the skies
this world will be left behind
who knows what the future is

Hlovate

#23. At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood.

Jeff Cooper

#24. I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#25. You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but ... um ... no.

Hal Sparks

#26. We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

C.S. Lewis

#27. The afterlife is not so much a place but rather what happens to me, to the others left behind, after Ben's life.

Sophie Hardcastle

#28. The body left behind.
The soul lives forever.

Toba Beta

#29. When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.

Paul Potts

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

Sara Sheridan

#31. All those sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.

Eowyn Ivey

#32. There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell behind me and only left a friend.

Angeles Kossio

#33. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

Czeslaw Milosz

#34. Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

Chuck Palahniuk

#35. One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Melina Marchetta

#36. And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Amy Tan

#37. I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.

K. Martin Beckner

#38. The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

Eric Kandel

#39. My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

Nellie McKay

#40. The monster of advertisement ... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat ...

Sarah Bernhardt

#41. When people died, they took their voices with them. I wondered if they knew how much the people left behind would kill for their sounds one last time.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#42. Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#43. Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised.

Steven Erikson

#44. 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

#45. My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#46. Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#47. Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#48. Bloody hell, grandsire," were Bones's first words as he approached. "You've left behind a wreckage of burned bodies, dead vampires, missing persons, threatened Guardians, and video evidence of our race's existence. Then you go on holiday. You really do have a death wish

Jeaniene Frost

#49. Even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer.

Nicholas Sparks

#50. 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