LEAVE in Classic Quotes

1  I have said that I make it a rule to finish up each day's work before leaving it.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.

2  It made me feel very sad and homesick to see the other students preparing to leave and starting for home.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

3  Nothing tends to throw me off my balance so quickly, when I am speaking, as to have some one leave the room.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.

4  In all my travels in the South and elsewhere since leaving Hampton I have always in some way sought my daily bath.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

5  All of these teach industries at which our men and women can find immediate employment as soon as they leave the institution.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII.

6  If I had been compelled to pay the seventy dollars for tuition, in addition to providing for my board, I would have been compelled to leave the Hampton school.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

7  These people feared the result of education would be that the Negroes would leave the farms, and that it would be difficult to secure them for domestic service.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

8  I make it a rule to clear my desk every day, before leaving my office, of all correspondence and memoranda, so that on the morrow I can begin a new day of work.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.

9  When I found that supper had been ordered, I tried to contrive some excuse that would permit me to leave the section, but the ladies insisted that I must eat with them.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

10  Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

11  They had spent the best days of their lives in slavery, and hardly expected to live to see the time when they would see a member of their race leave home to attend a boarding-school.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

12  To prevent this, I make up my mind, as a rule, that I will try to make my address so interesting, will try to state so many interesting facts one after another, that no one can leave.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.

13  My ignorance of how to wait upon them was so apparent that they scolded me in such a severe manner that I became frightened and left their table, leaving them sitting there without food.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

14  As I have stated, most of the coloured people left the old plantation for a short while at least, so as to be sure, it seemed, that they could leave and try their freedom on to see how it felt.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

15  I recall that during the first months of school that I taught in this building it was in such poor repair that, whenever it rained, one of the older students would very kindly leave his lessons and hold an umbrella over me while I heard the recitations of the others.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.

16  When I can leave my office in time so that I can spend thirty or forty minutes in spading the ground, in planting seeds, in digging about the plants, I feel that I am coming into contact with something that is giving me strength for the many duties and hard places that await me out in the big world.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.

17  After the coming of freedom there were two points upon which practically all the people on our place were agreed, and I found that this was generally true throughout the South: that they must change their names, and that they must leave the old plantation for at least a few days or weeks in order that they might really feel sure that they were free.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.