Famous quotes containing the word leaving:
“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is lifes undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896)
“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)
“pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
and holding them, clicking them
in thumb and forefinger,
the indent of twenty-five years,
like a tiny rip leaving its mark....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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