Quotes about Left Behind

Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind. Votes: 3

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind. Votes: 3

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. Votes: 3

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more. Votes: 3

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids. Votes: 3

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading. Votes: 3

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind. Votes: 3

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records. Votes: 3

What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test. Votes: 3

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Votes: 3

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. Votes: 3

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money. Votes: 3

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America. Votes: 3

No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than a one-size-fits-all accountability system developed by Washington bureaucrats. Votes: 3

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality. Votes: 3

I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college. Votes: 3

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable. Votes: 3

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did." Votes: 3

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did. Votes: 3

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind. Votes: 3

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. Votes: 3

No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. Votes: 3

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was. Votes: 3

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level. Votes: 3

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation. Votes: 3

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality. Votes: 3

If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable. Votes: 3

From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government. Votes: 3

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. Votes: 3

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no. Votes: 3

Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.'They can in Cosgrove County. It's part of the No Deer Left Behind program. Votes: 3

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works. Votes: 3

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers. Votes: 3

I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision. Votes: 3

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. Votes: 3

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up. Votes: 3

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in. Votes: 3

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off. Votes: 3

A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.' Votes: 3

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind. Votes: 3

I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it. Votes: 3

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. Votes: 2

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. Votes: 2

Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten. Votes: 2

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. Votes: 2

You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind! Votes: 2

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts. Votes: 2

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind. Votes: 2

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else. Votes: 2

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? Votes: 2

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. Votes: 2

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Votes: 2

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. Votes: 2

And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye. Votes: 2

That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet. Votes: 2

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind. Votes: 2

In Iraq, the U.S. military's whack-a-mole approach to killing Saddam Hussein may have finally paid off. The bombs destroyed the area and left behind a 60-foot crater, or as coalition forces prefer to call it: a freedom hole. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. Votes: 2

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities. Votes: 2

One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind. Votes: 2

No child's behind left. Votes: 0

No one gets left behind, remember? Votes: 0

Don't think about what you've left behind. Votes: 0

No one gets left behind, you know that. Votes: 0

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind". Votes: 0

When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind. Votes: 0

I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind. Votes: 0

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. Votes: 0

In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind? Votes: 0

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind. Votes: 0

A scar left behind by a woman typically goes forever. Votes: 0

Left behind as a memory for us. [Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.] Votes: 0

If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind. Votes: 0

No society can thrive when half its people are left behind. Votes: 0

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television. Votes: 0

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame. Votes: 0

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride. Votes: 0

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs. Votes: 0

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes. Votes: 0

Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind. Votes: 0

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence. Votes: 0

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence. Votes: 0

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses. Votes: 0

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left. Votes: 0

To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more. Votes: 0

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind. Votes: 0

Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind. Votes: 0

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child. Votes: 0

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind. Votes: 0

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind Votes: 0

What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind. Votes: 0

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all. Votes: 0

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead. Votes: 0

Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind. Votes: 0

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic Votes: 0

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind. Votes: 0

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind. Votes: 0

I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind. Votes: 0

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind. Votes: 0

It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves. Votes: 0

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind? Votes: 0

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind. Votes: 0

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind. Votes: 0

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. Votes: 0

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings. Votes: 0

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? Votes: 0

There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind. Votes: 0

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. Votes: 0

Who goes through more pain? The one who's gone or the one who got left behind? Votes: 0

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind. Votes: 0

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira. Votes: 0

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language." Votes: 0

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. Votes: 0

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind. Votes: 0

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language. Votes: 0

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind. Votes: 0

If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead. Votes: 0

I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind. Votes: 0

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone. Votes: 0

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind. Votes: 0

What is Medicaid all about? It's staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind. Votes: 0

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind. Votes: 0

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind. Votes: 0

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. Votes: 0

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind. Votes: 0

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. Votes: 0

Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind. Votes: 0

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. Votes: 0

Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time. Votes: 0

There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind Votes: 0

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by Votes: 0

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. Votes: 0

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. Votes: 0

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind. Votes: 0

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind. Votes: 0

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind. Votes: 0

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind. Votes: 0

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. Votes: 0

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime. Votes: 0

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind. Votes: 0

I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind. Votes: 0

Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part. Votes: 0

The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind. Votes: 0

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. Votes: 0

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived Votes: 0

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes. Votes: 0

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind. Votes: 0

Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you? Votes: 0

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind. Votes: 0

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind. Votes: 0

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine. Votes: 0

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again. Votes: 0

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict. Votes: 0

Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind. Votes: 0

We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind. Votes: 0

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career. Votes: 0

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind. Votes: 0

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever. Votes: 0

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity! Votes: 0

Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind. Votes: 0

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless. Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? Votes: 0

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever. Votes: 0

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you'd ever left behind riding on your shoulders. Votes: 0

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind. Votes: 0

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind. Votes: 0

Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals. Votes: 0

Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind. Votes: 0

'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market. Votes: 0

You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now? Votes: 0

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter Votes: 0

I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind. Votes: 0

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me. Votes: 0

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. Votes: 0

She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me. Votes: 0

What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us. Votes: 0

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind. Votes: 0

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise. Votes: 0

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind. Votes: 0

When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind. Votes: 0

When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes. Votes: 0

Some women become reckless with the fire, some find every way to put it out and rise above with the ashes left behind. Votes: 0

I've got four nipples. I think I must have been a twin, but the one other went away and left its nipples behind. Votes: 0

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Votes: 0

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business. Votes: 0

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world? Votes: 0

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all. Votes: 0

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here-- Votes: 0

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying. Votes: 0

In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind. Votes: 0

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s. Votes: 0

Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left Votes: 0

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend. Votes: 0

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind. Votes: 0

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy. Votes: 0

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time. Votes: 0

By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension . Votes: 0

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity. Votes: 0

Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind. Votes: 0

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. Votes: 0

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. Votes: 0

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. Votes: 0

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. Votes: 0

The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind. Votes: 0

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Votes: 0

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves. Votes: 0

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind. Votes: 0

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind. Votes: 0

Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco. Votes: 0

That is my job, right? To comfort him. To keep the portrait of what he left behind intact. Isn't that a woman's duty during wartime? Votes: 0

Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind. Votes: 0

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind. Votes: 0

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned. Votes: 0

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you. Votes: 0

The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player. Votes: 0

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable? Votes: 0

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy. Votes: 0

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all. Votes: 0

In the office, Michael sat behind our father's desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak. Votes: 0

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive. Votes: 0

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. Votes: 0

People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind. Votes: 0

This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen. Votes: 0

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness. Votes: 0

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased. Votes: 0

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind. Votes: 0

You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind. Votes: 0

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends. Votes: 0

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times. Votes: 0

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow. Votes: 0

You left me." Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past. He's prophesying our future. Votes: 0

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you. Votes: 0

The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited. Votes: 0

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp. Votes: 0

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal. Votes: 0

When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves. Votes: 0

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? Votes: 0

Do you share my belief in Swami Vivekananda's dream that India will be a Jagad Guru once again? I see no reason for India to be left behind. Votes: 0

Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people. Votes: 0

After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer. Votes: 0

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. Votes: 0

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph. Votes: 0

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them. Votes: 0

Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement — will be left behind, Votes: 0

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host. Votes: 0

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void. Votes: 0

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. Votes: 0

I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Votes: 0

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind. Votes: 0

Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid. Votes: 0

She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news. Votes: 0

We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind. Votes: 0

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them Votes: 0

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind. Votes: 0

Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work. Votes: 0

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind. Votes: 0

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land. Votes: 0

I was, on the whole, considerably discouraged by my school days. It was not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the beginning of the race. Votes: 0

Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind. Votes: 0

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind. Votes: 0

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning. Votes: 0

I feel myself withering away. The leafs of a soul fall and fall...naked branches left behind. I look up at the sky, yield and let my tears come down. Votes: 0

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child. Votes: 0

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front. Votes: 0

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere. Votes: 0

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front. Votes: 0

One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different outcome for the people left behind by globalization? Votes: 0

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life. Votes: 0

Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind. Votes: 0

Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind. Votes: 0

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods. Votes: 0

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind. Votes: 0

The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization. Votes: 0

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release. Votes: 0

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas. Votes: 0

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind. Votes: 0

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' goldAnd like the sky my soul is also turnin'Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind Votes: 0

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62 Votes: 0

Food and clothes sustain Body and life; I advise you to learn Being as is. When it's time, I move my hermitage and go, And there's nothing To be left behind. Votes: 0

When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind. Votes: 0

Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind. Votes: 0

The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts. Votes: 0

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us. Votes: 0

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth. Votes: 0

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them. Votes: 0

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees. Votes: 0

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind. Votes: 0

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind. Votes: 0

Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind. Votes: 0

We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect, we can change the world, one person at a time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind. Votes: 0

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy. Votes: 0

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow. Votes: 0

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current. Votes: 0

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow. Votes: 0

My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work. Votes: 0

The US will increasingly see the risks of being left behind, and ten years from now they would have to start worrying about being shut out of markets because their production is dirty. Votes: 0

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here. Votes: 0

I think quality will be increasingly important-we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind. Votes: 0

And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future. Votes: 0

Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind. Votes: 0

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind. Votes: 0

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about. Votes: 0

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind. Votes: 0

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind Votes: 0

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it. Votes: 0

I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better. Votes: 0

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology. Votes: 0

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind. Votes: 0

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared. Votes: 0

Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need to take care of the poor, deprived and left behind sections of society. Votes: 0

The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid. Votes: 0

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further. Votes: 0

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality. Votes: 0

In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea. Votes: 0