Famous quotes containing the word leaving:
“Q: Have you made personal sacrifices for the sake of your career?
A: Leaving a three-month-old infant in another persons house for nine hours, five days a week is a personal sacrifice.”
—Alice Cort (20th century)
“... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797)
“I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)