Jerry Spinelli Quotes

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.

Leaving Chelsea was sad, but naturally everything has to come to an end.

I feel like, of course, Portland didn't want me to leave, but I feel like at the end of the day it's good to have a fresh start.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

Looking back, it wasn't easy when the news broke that I was leaving Dortmund, but that's behind me now.

When I left Portsmouth, I was happy. I'd had a great two years there, but I wanted a break. I needed a break.

I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with.

It was terrifying when Aaron Sorkin announced that he was leaving West Wing, he and Tommy Schlamme. We felt like our parents were abandoning us. It was a tremendously sad day and I'm sure I will never understand exactly all the reasons why that happened.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.