I’d far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
– EM Forster
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- Some people behind leave a legacy, some leave behind children. Which would you prefer? – Mary Sage Nguyen
- …before the dawn I leave the night behind meand before my heart I let you leave me behind.- from the poem ‘Behind – Munia Khan
- Why children?’ he asked. ‘Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. – EM Forster
- Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants – the whole system’s wrong, and she must challenge it. – EM Forster
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. – Charles ens
- What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them. – Ann Brashares
- Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls. – Henry Cloud
- People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them. – Joe Newman
- He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
- Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord. – Elizabeth George
- You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- A person’s Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy. – Michael Levy
- In your haste you walk far too fast. And in doing so you often leave your soul behind. – Anonymous
- It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind. – William Pne du Bois
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave. – VT Davy
- What can you do for love?Can you leave a person for love?Can you leave a country for love?I think I wouldn’t even leave my couch for love – Sanhita Baruah
- A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world… – Abraham Verghese
- Leaving behind books is even more beautiful -” there are far too many children. – Marguerite Yourcenar
- How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far? – Bert Murray
- We can hardly get to the very far for the very far we can think of is the far we have not yet reach – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far. – Arzum Uzun
- The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child. – E Stanley Jones
- Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good. – Bryan Chapell
- He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. – EM Forster
- I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. – EM Forster
- It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them. – Shannon L Alder
- As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn’t. Not at all. – Sarah Dessen
- What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. – Joseph Chilton Pearce
- When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. – Philip K
- It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought. – Christopher Pike
- Love your children-”and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them. – Billy Graham
- I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card