Leaving Quotes - Page 26

• When I was 14 I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

  Mark E. Smith

  Wall, School, Age

  "This much I know". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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• Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?

  Pablo Neruda

  Time, War, Blood

  Pablo Neruda (1975). “Pablo Neruda: selected poems”

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• I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.

  Jessica Seinfeld

  Children, School, Long

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• Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

  Helen Hayes

  Children, Responsibility, Discovery

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• There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom, there's light for nothing but mosses and ferns. But when a giant falls, leaving a little space ... then there's a race - between the trees on either side, who want to spread out, and the seedlings below, who race to grow up. Sometimes, you can make your own space.

  Terry Pratchett

  Growing Up, Fall, Sky

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• It’s being reported that the economy lost 95,000 jobs in September. And that’s just people leaving the White House.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, White, People

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• I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

  Anne Tyler

  Baby, Thinking, Waiting

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• But true individuality is more about being in tune with who you truly are, whether you're expressing yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually; individuality arises from living without fear of what other might think or say about you and without being swayed by their opinions, leaving you free to lead life without caring about judgments made by the outside world.

  Kat Von D

  Caring, Thinking, Individuality

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• In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade.
  And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down...
  or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame
  "I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Cutting, Gloves

  "The Boxer" (song) (1968)

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• I did it because I thought I could die quickly if I lived like that. I couldn't end my life, leaving behind my younger sister. I thought that if I lived that way I would get punished and end this crappy life early. But now I want to live. Because I have a reason to live.

  Ma-Roo

  Love, Drama, Want

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• I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Independent, Way In Life, Proud

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• I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Death, People, Holding On

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• By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Queens, Moving, Sacrifice

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• The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'

  Joe Manganiello

  Best Love, House, Advice

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• I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Love Is, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

  Ed Rendell

  Opportunity, Second Chance, People

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• I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

  Elliott Smith

  Enemy, Comfort, Littles

  Song: A Fond Farewell, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Self, Expression

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• Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

  Karl Marlantes

  Pain, Weakness, Body

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.21, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving

  Nellie Bly

  Pain, Sunlight, Release

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.84, Nellie Bly

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• The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

  Alex Tabarrok

  People, Giving, Attention

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• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Disappointment

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• Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

  Jennifer Worth

  Spiders, Granted, Thread

  Jennifer Worth (2005). “Shadows of the workhouse”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

  Lisa Mangum

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

  Renzo Novatore

  Old Things, Smoking, Moral

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