We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
It often happens that you leave your house in the dark, shoot on a sound stage without natural lighting, and then go home in the dark. A whole week can go past, and it can feel like 12 hours.
I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.
No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.
When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.
Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.
The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.
Many take the roles home with them and live the part. I'm quite happy to leave mine at the studio and return home as I left: simple old Roger Moore.
Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.
I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.
Immigration is a legitimate concern, but it's not a good reason to leave the E.U.
We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.
