They Leave Quotes

226 quotes by 207 authors

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear… — James Buchan
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will… — Thomas Jefferson
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their… — Hans Eysenck
The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives… — Thomas Jefferson
They try to engage the world as much as they can and we will continue until they leave our land. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It… — Mark Twain
On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes… — Victor Grignard
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. — Rabindranath Tagore
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Frank Schoonmaker
We love our dear ones deeply and miss them when they leave us. But we know that the bond of love is greater than death. — Harold Klemp
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come… — Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot… — Ernest Hemingway
The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is… — Philippe Petit
I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when… — Madonna Ciccone
I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense. — Ryan Phillippe
Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave… — Jodie Foster
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the… — Ida B. Wells
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are… — Vikram Seth
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one… — Gautama Buddha

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