Left Behind Quotes - Page 5

• The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

  Jim Clyburn

  Children, Party, Cutting

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• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

  Lars von Trier

  Cake, Careers, People

  "INTERVIEW: Lars von Trier Comes Out of the Dark". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 22, 2000.

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

  Heraclitus

  Caught, Behinds, Left

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• As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

  Edwin Francis Gay

  Sorry, Kindness, Heart

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• When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Sex, Ugly Things

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• Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

  David Ehrenfeld

  Green World, Earth Day, Humanity

  "The Arrogance of Humanism". Book by David Ehrenfeld, 1978.

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• There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

  Wayne Rooney

  Wise, Football, Stopping

  "Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney's wit and wisdom gets found in translation when talking Italian". La Repubblica Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 12, 2012.

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• Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Biblical, Play, People

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• Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing, bacteria left behind resettle on your teeth and gums. Oil pulling reaches virtually 100 percent of the mouth, thereby affecting all bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa in the mouth.

  Bruce Fife

  Oil, Bacteria, Teeth

  Bruce Fife (2017). “Oil Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body Through Oral Cleansing”, p.89, Piccadilly Books, Ltd.

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• The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dwelling, Body, Host

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CXX

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• The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Sometimes, Born

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• Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Memories, Garden

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• We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.

  Steve Squyres

  Rocks, Giving, Water

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• As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting - the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Science

  "The Adventures of Augie March". Book by Saul Bellow. Chapter 6, 1953.

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• In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

  Albert Camus

  Dream, Children, Errors

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.188, Vintage

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

  Billy Graham

  God, Vacuums, Longing

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• Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind.

  Tiger Woods

  Work Out, Guy, Behinds

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Sadness, World, Saws

  Song: Billy Dee

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

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Blessing, People

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• Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Running, Dream, Ghost

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• The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Names, Behinds, Objects

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• Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

  Tom Glazer

  Mother, Father, Two

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• Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

  Anne Holm

  People, Sorrow, Gone

  Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

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• With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

  Sue Kelly

  Children, Taken, Important

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• How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

  Joel Barlow

  Mankind, Behinds, Millions

  Joel Barlow, “ADVICe To A Raven In Russia (1812)”

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