Top 515 Leaving Quotes

I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks, and then I said, ‘Doggone this, it’s not what I want to do.’ I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school, and I wanted to go into football. He said, ‘Be a good coach.’
Marv Levy
Salad bars are like a restaurant’s lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
Douglas Coupland
Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.
Tim Kennedy
Almost everything I operated was in Melbourne and Perth, but in the end, I just couldn’t bear the thought of leaving. Sydney is my home.
James Packer
It was tough for my family. My father was working; my mother was working. Sometimes I was alone at home after leaving school.
Lukas Podolski
I never considered leaving Real Madrid or that it was a mistake to come here.
Luka Modric
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.
John Dyer
Leaving the E.U. enables the U.K. to be more engaged with the global economy, not just the European economy.
Steve Hilton
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having l

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
William Shatner
When I was leaving WWE, I’d started becoming interested in applying parkour to the matches and using the ring environment in fun, new ways.
John Morrison
The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
Walter Smith
The state of my poor boy’s health prevents me from leaving home for a night.
Edward Irving
Beijing’s foreign investments can be coercive and exploitative – using Chinese laborers and contractors instead of local ones, saddling poorer countries with enormous debts, leaving behind shoddy workmanship and fueling corruption.
Antony Blinken
There’s nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.
Kirby Smart
Ronaldo leaving would seem to have ended the competition between Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo because people rarely mention one without mentioning the other. A lot of people are interested – me, too – to see how it will affect Real Madrid’s football and what they might do in the transfer market.
Ernesto Valverde
Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.
Jon Kyl
Going to Belgium proved to be quite a cathartic experience for me because it eventually helped to heal the situation of leaving Leicester too.
Nigel Pearson
It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.
Jamie Parker
By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
Bernard Sumner
Sashi will assume the general counsel responsibilities formerly held by Paul Vance, who is leaving the franchise after 18 years of service.
Shahid Khan
A sponge is quite simple. You weigh ingredients, mix, and put it in the oven. With pastry, you manhandle it, shape it, fold it. You have to be involved with it; there is more jeopardy, more risk. But it’s like making a casserole. There’s a flurry of activity to begin with; then it’s about leaving it to rest.
Paul Hollywood
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison
A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Bronte
Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you’ll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.
Michael Arrington
My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn’t trust life insurance salesmen.
Sylvia Plath
I put my diet chart aside when I am in MP! Be it poha, jalebi, daal baafla, or namkeen, I always make sure that I relish the local delicacies before leaving Indore. Indore is a must visit for all the foodies.
Sriti Jha
I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky – three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.
Ernest Borgnine
For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
Angela Merkel
I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it’s a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.
Jose Gonzalez
I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don’t go to a restaurant and let slip I’m leaving by the back door, like some celebrities.
Alex Kingston
The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan.
Richard Quest
I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC’s Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.
Pauline Neville-Jones
It’s all been a bit of a rush, but I think that happens when you make your debut so soon after leaving school. You’ve had this dream, and suddenly you’re doing it, and everything happens very fast and hardly slows down.
James Milner
Accepting that my time with Arsenal was over was difficult because I never imagined leaving.
Wojciech Szczesny
Once I’ve properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with ‘Capital,’ I felt I’d spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I’ve not quite had before.
John Lanchester
Leaving Oklahoma for Illinois is not the no-brainer some think it is.
Kelvin Sampson
A bowler should be allowed to point out to an umpire that a batsman is backing up, leaving the officials to watch what is going on.
Jonathan Agnew
I strongly prefer to keep my hair loose and wavy, leaving it as natural as possible.
Chiara Ferragni
Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It’s not glam.
Billy Boyd
I am the most conservative person you will ever come ac

I am the most conservative person you will ever come across, and that’s because I’m good at reducing risks while leaving the potential rewards high.
Theo Paphitis
My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.
Dikembe Mutombo
We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that’s String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided to create our universe, or maybe our universe is butted from another universe leaving an umbilical cord. Well, that umbilical cord is called a wormhole.
Michio Kaku
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren’t able to function in it.
Yolandi Visser
I remember going to ‘The Wood’ and leaving my friend and my mom, who I came with, to go sit in the front row because I was so excited.
Lena Waithe
Leaving Labour was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do and it was not a cause of jubilation or happiness. I did it with great sadness, but you have to put the country first.
Chuka Umunna
I’m moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn’t clear. If people think you’re leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they’re coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I’m just moving on right now.
Regis Philbin
I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I’ve thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I’m just leaving them.
Andre Benjamin
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he’s coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
Michael Fassbender
I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it’s not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.
Vivienne Westwood
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
We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don’t find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don’t think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we’re leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.
Leila Janah
In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.
Anastasia Soare
Right after retiring I didn’t want to be on the road 16 weeks a year – leaving on a Thursday night and coming home on a Sunday night – it was a little too much.
Jason Sehorn
Just leaving it all on the ice, I do it every game, and the fans appreciate that.
P.K. Subban
No, I don’t miss the character of Akshara, but I cherish it. I will cherish it all my life. Leaving Akshara was a conscious decision of my life, and I was well prepared. When you are well prepared, then you don’t miss, but you cherish it for a lifetime.
Hina Khan