Quotes about Leaving

What is happening here is an unheard-of event: hurtful, offensive, and in radical contradiction to the most venerated tradition of the time. Kenneth Bailey, in his penetrating explanation of Luke's story, shows that the son's manner of leaving is tantamount to wishing his father dead.

Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.

I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running America.

The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

Yossarian left money in the old woman's lap—it was odd how many wrongs leaving money seemed to right—and

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.