I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. — Martin Van Buren
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. — Richard M. Nixon
Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father. — Marie Antoinette
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. — Anne Boleyn
Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered. — Frances Hesselbein
My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life? — Nnamdi Azikiwe
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting. — Sergei Yesenin
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. — Chief Joseph
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies — Jack Kerouac
Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death. — Genghis Khan
And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. — Frank Sinatra
Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. — George Sanders
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln
Short Farewell Address Quotes
Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation. — Shel Israel
you will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye. P.S. i will always love you — Cecelia Ahern
So long, and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams
Best of luck in your future endeavors! — CM Punk
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done. — Walt Whitman
I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all! — Christopher McCandless
Farewell Address Image Quotes
When you can't solve and address and issue or opportunity, there is no harm or shame in reaching out for people who can.
Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel. — Pocahontas
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. — Richard Bach
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. — J. R. R. Tolkien
When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses. — Clark Gable
It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known. — Charles Tennyson Turner
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. — James Weldon Johnson
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. — Ernest Hemingway
Saying Farewell Quotes
I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation. — Greg Norman
Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you. — Dale Evans
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks
Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. — Etty Hillesum
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. — Rebecca West
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. — John Dryden
Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be. — Walt Disney
It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it. — Aesop
Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Good Farewell Quotes
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. — Ernest Hemingway
There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? — George Washington
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. — Charles M. Schulz
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. — Jean Paul
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. — Anna Brownell Jameson
Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible. — Henry Fielding
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. — Cecil Day-Lewis
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. — William Shakespeare
Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Goodbye Farewell Quotes
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For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles. — Robert Frost
Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice. — Diane Arbus
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Goodbyes are not forever
Goodbyes aren't final, when
You only mean we'll miss you
Until we meet again — John Walter Bratton
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye. — Erica Jong
Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well. — Lord Byron
If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me? — Allen Collins
Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well. — William Shakespeare
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it. — Victor Hugo
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. — George Washington
Retirement: a time to become much more than you have ever been. — Ernie J Zelinski
I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from. — Tommy Chong
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. — Gene Perret
I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap — Lyoto Machida
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." — Gene Perret
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. — Gene Perret
Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. — George Washington
Farewell Love Quotes
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free. — Geoffrey Chaucer
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. — George Eliot
When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles,
When the time comes to embrace for one long last while,
We can laugh about how time really flies,
We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies,You'll always be beautiful in my eyes. — Joshua Kadison
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. — George Washington
People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to. — Fulton Oursler
Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves. — Boris Pasternak
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not. — R. A. Salvatore
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. — Ernest Hemingway
For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Farewell Friend Quotes
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. — Donald Cargill
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Farewell, woman! I intend
Henceforth every night to sit
With my lewd, well-natured friend,
Drinking to engender wit. — John Wilmot
Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ. — Donald Cargill
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing. — Richard Parks Bland
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. — Donald E. Westlake
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. — Edward Young
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing. — Richard P. Bland
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! — Robert Pollok
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. — William Shenstone
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. — George Washington
Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it is because of all the religious warnings Washington made in his 'Farewell Address.' — David Barton
The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all. — George Washington
Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. — George Washington
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. — George Washington
One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. — George Washington
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? — George Washington
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. — George Washington
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington
As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. — George Washington
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. — George Washington
[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another. — George Washington
Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart. — George Washington
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. — George Washington
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice? — George Washington
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . . — George Washington
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations. — George Washington
But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other' — John Avlon
Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. — George Washington
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. — George Washington
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. — George Washington
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it — George Washington
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes. — George Washington
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? — George Washington
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address. — Marianne Williamson
It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings. — David Barton
Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office. — Jon Stewart
In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions. — Sayings
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