#leave

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#american literature #back #forever #leave #literature

Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#back #been #bring #certain #day

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ↗

— Red Buttons

#hand #kids #leaves #never #raise

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. ↗

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#fish #footprint #leave #opportunity #our

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#darkness #else #everything #flash #gone

I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest! ↗

— Camille Claudel

#any #because #bed #better #cannot

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us. ↗

— John Gay

#fond #grow #leave #love #pursue

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. ↗

— Ray Charles

#around #been #behind #big #cake

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. ↗

— Boozoo Chavis

#nothing

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave. ↗

— Max Cleland

#exit strategy #iraq #leave #need #out