Top 515 Leaving Quotes

Leaving the European Union is likely to have an impact on the workforce in sectors such as catering, construction and agriculture. I see an opportunity here for both prisoners and employers, particularly those operating in these sectors.
David Gauke
There were personality clashes in Free, really. I think it’s as simple as that; I think we felt we weren’t leaving each other enough room to develop in our own way, and we were restricting each other. So we said, let’s go different ways.
Paul Rodgers
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
James Weldon Johnson
A growth strategy requires tax rates that people are prepared to pay and cannot avoid or do not wish to avoid by going offshore or leaving the country.
John Redwood
You can satisfy your soul’s mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.
Debbie Ford
I left ‘Spring Awakening,’ and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.
Jonathan Groff
Life has always treated me well. I therefore won’t mind leaving it behind.
Dario Fo
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
Jeffrey Archer
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it’ll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
B. B. King
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying in space.
Chris Hadfield
In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.
Graydon Carter
Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
Barry Gibb
It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and con

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
Bobby Darin
Leaving the E.U. is an opportunity for our country.
Esther McVey
I have been very clear for years – leaving the E.U. means leaving the single market, leaving the customs union, taking back control of our money, border, and laws.
Andrea Leadsom
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
John Cheever
Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that’s follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.
Emun Elliott
I realised that I had no future at Bayern, so I resigned myself to leaving the club and had to choose a new destination.
Mario Mandzukic
At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.
Max McKeown
I don’t know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?
Michael Douglas
I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it’s leaving us more and more isolated.
Mike Rutherford
In one-day internationals, the batsman is under pressure to get on with run-scoring and does not have the luxury of leaving too many deliveries.
Jonathan Agnew
When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It’s the only thing I’m really leaving them – a good education.
Sloan Wilson
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
Ken MacLeod
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.
Cedric Richmond
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‘No. No, I’m finished. Bye.’ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
Maya Angelou
I’m a lead singer of a band, and that’s so enough. It’s not like I need to have my name on everything. The new name ‘Scandal, Featuring Patty Smyth’ was just to make it clear that I wasn’t leaving the group.
Patty Smyth
When I was leaving college, getting ready to graduate with a degree in finance, I had job interviews for months and months – and nothing really was moving like a real opportunity. Meanwhile, a lot of my wrestling teammates at Oklahoma had started getting into MMA training.
Jake Hager
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
Kate DiCamillo
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan
By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what’s the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?
Richard Cohen
The process to generate energy using the Canadian tar sands is particularly dirty, producing one of the most noxious fossil fuels on the planet and leaving a devastated landscape in its wake.
John Delaney
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one’s head.
Harold Brodkey
I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.
Whittaker Chambers
You won’t see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I’m leaving a club looking tired, and there’ll be headlines saying, ‘She’s out of control’. You can’t prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.
Pixie Lott
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.
Francis Parkman
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia
Nothing’s hipper than leaving the set of ‘Girls’ in Brooklyn and having a teamster drop you off at your Broadway show.
Peter Scolari
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.
Jonathan Kellerman
Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.
Jonathan Van Ness
I always say, it’s better to be asked why you’re leaving, rather than when you’re leaving.
Keir Starmer
I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.
Andre Previn
A fan requested me for a photo, after which he made his

A fan requested me for a photo, after which he made his whole family click photos with me, and while leaving, he told his family that I was Katrina Kaif!
Hina Khan
After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at ‘Dracula.’ Halfway through it, I understood I’d never be going back, never ‘leaving’ the genre again. Since then, I’ve been on a fairly strict horror diet.
Josh Malerman
I see the young guys coming out of college. They are bombing it past me. They hit it so far, they are leaving me in the dust.
Brooks Koepka
As you know, Hurricane Sandy has affected thousands of families, leaving them without electricity, without household goods and, in the worst cases, without a home.
Thalia
Sometimes I shoot out of bed like it’s a relay race, and I’m on the phone, leaving voice mails.
Kate Spade
Anybody who’s lived in the ghetto knows that you don’t move during the daytime. Here’s why: You don’t want anyone to know you’re leaving, and you don’t want anyone knowing where you’re going.
Tracy Morgan
I don’t like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
Quentin Blake
I believe it’s time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.
Chris Chocola
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation’s health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.
Jim Ryun
When I wrote ‘Monsoon,’ I always imagined the music video being shot in India. The song had so much to do with my time in India with my mother as well as leaving her in India during the monsoon season to visit my family in N.Y. It really was a dream come true when I was given the opportunity to shoot in India.
Amber Mark
There are also parties in Germany that support leaving the E.U. Everyone can see in the example of Britain what consequences that would have.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
The truth is in California you can’t build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
Carly Fiorina
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.
James Merrill
I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
Gary Lineker