When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.
When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind.
Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.
Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.
When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.
I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.
Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.
Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.
Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.
You always have to think in the back of your mind that someone's working harder than you, someone's getting better than you. That's what drives me every day. I always think there's someone out there working harder.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.
Group shows are always much harder to present to the public because there's a theme to the show. They always do less well because a theme is a harder thing for people to grapple with than a monographic idea.
No child should be left behind - I've heard this from President Obama. And here, we say in Latin America, no country should be left behind.
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.