Quotes about Departure
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
- John Milton
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
- Edmund Burke
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
- Albert Schweitzer
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
- Joseph Brodsky
The street resembled fairgrounds deserted in haste. There was a little of everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. All the things one planned to take along and finally left behind. They had ceased to matter.
- Elie Wiesel
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.
- John Wesley
Many times when people leave churches we think it's a doctrinal issue, but most of the time it's a leadership issue.
- John Maxwell
He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.
- Emily Bronte
Me thinks this heart should rest awhile... / Those flowers were formed to feel the breeze / Wave their light leaves in summer's glow... / And I lament because I know / That cold departure pictures mine.
- Emily Bronte
Vince McMahon got really angry at me for leaving the WWE-F-G, whatever it is now.
- Roddy Piper