Top 515 Leaving Quotes

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
Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don’t leave it alone after a minute or two, you’re in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they’ve got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
Bobby Cox
Leaving a legacy beyond just playing football has become extremely important to me.
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
I just don’t touch my brows! Hopefully, leaving them be will pay off so that I still have them in the future.
Kaia Gerber
I don’t like going out. I’m more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don’t like leaving; I don’t like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.
Pete Davidson
I love living in Manhattan, but every time I leave, I say that I’m so happy I’m leaving.
Brooke Baldwin
It hurts me that Puyol is leaving Barcelona, and I wish

It hurts me that Puyol is leaving Barcelona, and I wish him well. For me, he was always the fire that the team needed.
Edgar Davids
I believe leaving school early was the right decision to make, but at first, I wasn’t sure. But my coaches told me to follow my heart and there wouldn’t be any regrets, and that’s exactly what I did.
Luol Deng
I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
Zig Ziglar
Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.
Sendhil Mullainathan
Leaving the E.U. was not the outcome that I wanted or campaigned, but now that democracy has spoken, we must act on that result. I will fully respect that result.
George Osborne
Anyone leaving the Congress’ camp and joining – or even indirectly praising – the BJP-led NDA coalition immediately stands the risk of losing this Congress-issued certificate of secularism. It is a travesty!
Piyush Goyal
My dad is really the reason I have this hard work ethic. I can fully remember him leaving home at 5 o’clock in the morning and not coming back until midnight.
Mustafa Ali
I’m quite contradictory – a bit OCD, but quite untidy. I have piles of stuff everywhere, but they make sense to me. And I’ll find the one thing in the room that’s my boyfriend’s, and complain about him leaving it out.
Kimberley Nixon
I don’t have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
Fiona Apple
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
Anthony Foxx
I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.
Dorothy Denning
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there’s a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
Cam Newton
What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I’m making, it’s definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I’m coming from.
Katy B
There’s something great about driving through studio gates and leaving all your responsibilities behind.
Michelle Phillips
What’s been unique about our acquisition is that Google is leaving us independent. That actually means that the company is structured the same… We really are a company within a company.
Noam Bardin
Vince McMahon got really angry at me for leaving the WWE-F-G, whatever it is now.
Roddy Piper
Finishing books – and leaving the world you’ve created – is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
Lauren Oliver
Sometimes, it takes leaving to gain some perspective. I see that clearly every time I leave Washington, D.C., and return to Indiana. I see the bizarre bubble that seems to enclose the Beltway and makes people forget what regular people care about.
Evan Bayh
The satisfaction for me is that when you leave somewhere you look at what you are leaving and I know I left West Ham in great shape.
Sam Allardyce
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
Kenko Yoshida
Even leaving aside its military bases, America’s influence on the domestic ordering of British life has been enormous, though sometimes unrecognised.
Linda Colley
I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Seriously, how many places on this planet exist in which you get to say to your boss, ‘Sorry, but I’m leaving to climb a mountain, and I won’t have Wi-Fi or cell service for a week.’
Brooke Baldwin
I did fine at school. Because of my acting work, I did miss all my mocks, which I was absolutely delighted about, and I spent about five months of my Leaving Cert year in Canada because I was doing ‘Young Blades’ there.
Robert Sheehan
I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.
Curt Flood
My favorite part about going to the gym used to be leaving.
Michael Cudlitz
There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we’re so happy in America I actually can’t see us ever leaving… People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
Victoria Beckham
It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don’t leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.
Richie Benaud
I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
Rick Smolan
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
Hervey Allen
I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn’t find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.
Daniel Woodrell
If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great v

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.
Lawrence Lessig
So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there’s also that fear about people leaving you.
Cathy Rigby
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I’m puritanical. I don’t mean my subject matter. It’s that I’m almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I’m not quite happy with it.
Tom Stoppard
The FBI is not in the habit of leaving loose ends. That’s not what they do.
Asha Rangappa
The thing I learned from ‘Pride and Glory’ is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
Gavin O’Connor
In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.
Jonathan Turley
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
Tristram Stuart
The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.
Dave Chappelle
Leaving Chelsea was sad, but naturally everything has to come to an end.
Gary Cahill
The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them ‘in their place’ and under control.
Katherine Dunn
I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I’m leaving office.
Matt Gonzalez
Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?
Des Browne
The first year at Juilliard is, I think, the best. And partly why I left – I only went one year. Partly why I felt okay leaving is that the most important elements, I believe, happen in the first year. What they do is they tear down all your conceptions of acting, and they take away all your tricks that you’ve learned.
Wes Bentley
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Ambrose Bierce
Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‘all options are open’ – meaning the threat of war.
Noam Chomsky
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.
Michael Portillo
Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I’ve put out are essentially the director’s cut. Part of the process with a director’s cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don’t feel necessary because they aren’t part of the dynamic of the story.
Ridley Scott
I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like – leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
Luanne Rice