Leaving It Behind Quotes

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? [She] would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
- Sarah Addison Allen

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
- Jean Paul

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
- Carol P Christ

There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.
- Frederick William Faber

I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.
- Helene Hanff

Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.
- Sue Monk Kidd