Leaving Quotes

I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

~ Tony Blair

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

~ John Mcafee

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

~ Ben Shapiro

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

~ Carl Sandburg

Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

~ Queen Rania Of Jordan

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

~ Rupert Murdoch

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

~ Robert Neelly Bellah

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

~ Naomie Harris

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

~ Abraham Lincoln

If a gigantic asteroid were barreling toward impact with our planet, you can bet there would be at least a few members of Congress who would insist on leaving it alone, either because they would see it as a warning shot from the Almighty or because a mining company with a savvy team of lobbyists had laid claim to the big rock.

~ David Horsey

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

~ Mick Jagger

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

~ Al Roker

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

~ Natalie Cole

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

~ Wilt Chamberlain

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

~ Peter Singer

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

~ Alison Gopnik