Leave Behind Quotes

260 Leave Behind quotes by 213 unique authors

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. — Vera Nazarian
It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and… — Emma Bull
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience. — Norman Maclean
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes,… — John Green
Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. — Daisaku Ikeda
There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's… — Brad Meltzer
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape. — Victor Hugo
She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind. — Roddy Doyle
It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk… — Steven Hall
If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take… — Ernest Hemingway
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind. — Taylor Swift
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start… — Kurt Vonnegut
Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye… — Maggie Stiefvater
The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation… — Adolf Hitler
When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind. — Jeannette Walls
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs. — Jonathan Franzen
Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind. — Christopher Pike
The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural.… — Kate Jacobs
It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget. — Maggie Stiefvater
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. — E. M. Forster
Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from… — Paullina Simons
The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is… — Elisabeth Eaves
I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you… — Vera Nazarian
And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate… — Fernando Pessoa

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