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Quotes About Leaving

I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.
~ David Cameron
And he left. What discipline. I guess that is what they mean by "character" on the East Coast: leaving summer behind.
~ Eve Babitz
And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind: Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck. Yours truly, Earl Adcock P.S. I'm not deaf.
~ Fannie Flagg
No more coming home as to a death sentence. No more leaving after this leaving.
~ Boey Kim Cheng
Not only was he sorrowful at the prospect of leaving home, he was convinced, he whispered, that he would never return alive. Herndon implored him to abandon such thoughts.
~ Harold Holzer
I wrote the script to 'Lady Bird,' and it really came out of a desire to make a project about home - like, what the meaning of home is, and place. I knew Sacramento very well, obviously, growing up there, and I felt like the right way to tell a story of a place was through a person who's about to leave it.
~ Greta Gerwig
I'm such a homebody. It's actually quite tragic because, if I'm out for drinks, I'll constantly be thinking about when it's acceptable for me to leave.
~ Stacey Dooley
Becoming a monk was a hard decision. Leaving being a monk was harder, but it's given me so much faith in my ability to transition, and that what I learned as a monk can still serve me.
~ Jay Shetty
Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.
~ Soyen Shaku
Actually, I was glad when we left, I couldn't have kept up this non-stop soldier-all-day - lover-all-night with only cups of tea in between.
~ Spike Milligan
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
Herbert Sondheim had written a note, packed up his clothes, and walked out.
~ Meryle Secrest
But, Dad! We can't leave. Uncle Jake is hurt! Daphne said. Besides, that's Pinocchio. I want to get an autograph.
~ Michael Buckley
Even as she helped the team of software guys and former Obama officials build the model that persuaded Newsom to shut down the state, Charity had decided that she was leaving. As children, she and her older sister had a phrase to describe the unsettling sensation of fresh doubt about some situation or some person: black smoke. The black smoke had rolled into state government with the virus and never left.
~ Michael Lewis
The hardest part of living is loving 'Cause loving turns to leaving every time And the hardest part of leaving is living Life is hard when love is so unkind
~ Allison Moorer
He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.
~ Sylvia Day
Snowbébé, Snowbébé... These days...your memories of me have left you too, haven't they? My voice reaches you no more. You look wonderful, Snowbébé—so strong and valiant. Fight on, with your tail held high! I'm always right here. Always watching everyone from up here... Snowbébé, Snowbébé... Snowbébé, Snowbébé...
~ Taiyo Matsumoto
Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
~ Junot Diaz
God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back.
~ Justin Cronin
God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back. She wondered what she would do.
~ Justin Cronin
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~ Francis Thompson
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
~ Frederick W. Faber
He put out his hand for good-bye with a "Splendid, splendid, splendid!" And he left her, in her splendour, still waiting for little Bilham.
~ Henry James