#leave

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?' ↗

— LeBron James

#am #around #deeper #did #father

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#another #bread #close #earned #free

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.' ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#am #better #completely #could #done

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human. ↗

— David Coverdale

#back #being #being human #feel #get

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#asked #british #british government #chaos #confusion

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#century #certainly #democratic #democratic party #enter

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#completely #different #different people #different place #drained

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#fathers #husbands #leave #less #result

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#bringing #considerably #destroying #down #leave

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men. ↗

— Martha Griffiths

#benefits #earth #given #i #know