quotes about Left Behind
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And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
-- Amy Tan -
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
-- Anthony BrowneSource : "Gorilla artist Anthony Browne becomes children's laureate" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2009.
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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
-- Audrey NiffeneggerSource : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
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Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.
-- Bill Bryson -
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Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?
-- Brom -
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
-- Carson McCullersSource : Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
-- Charles Dickens -
And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by
-- Chris CornellSource : Song: Seasons
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Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
-- Cy Coleman -
Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.
-- Darynda Jones -
You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind!
-- Diana Ross -
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.
-- Edward Abbey -
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Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
-- Frances Hardinge -
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.
-- George Santayana -
I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic
-- Grace Coddington -
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I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.
-- Helen Bevington -
I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.
-- Henry Rollins -
Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.
-- Homer -
Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
-- Jerry B. Jenkins -
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I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.
-- Jim Croce -
How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
-- Joel BarlowSource : Joel Barlow, “ADVICe To A Raven In Russia (1812)”
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The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
-- Kiran DesaiSource : Kiran Desai (2006). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.208, Atlantic Monthly Press
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I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.
-- Maurice GibbSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.
-- Ratan Tata -
I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'
-- Robert Smith -
And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
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Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.
-- Sara Sheridan -
I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
-- Sarah Dessen -
It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
-- Seamus Heaney -
Left behind as a memory for us. [Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]
-- Statius -
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The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
-- Stephen Greenblatt -
We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
-- Steven PressfieldSource : Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.73, Black Irish Entertainment LLC
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Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind.
-- Tiger Woods -
It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
-- Travis TrittSource : Song: If the Fall Don't Kill You
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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Who goes through more pain? The one who's gone or the one who got left behind?
-- Atsushi -
If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.
-- Alan Armstrong