Farewell Speech Quotes

The first time I retired, only Sir Alex Ferguson and I knew that the last league game of the 2010-11 season against Blackpool was to be my final game at Old Trafford. I was a little bit sad, but I am not one for tears. The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

When you leave the White House, you wonder if you’ll ever draw a crowd again.

President Obama's farewell speech soared, towered, dragged. True, it was longer than Reagan's, Clinton's and GWB's speeches combined. If it got any longer, it would have qualified as a third term.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'

But I don't look forward to the day that Kobe Bryant's not in purple and gold.

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

Actually, when Vineeth was in class 10, I was invited to his school as the chief guest. Till then I had never accepted an invitation to the school day but since Vineeth was leaving school, I decided to accept the invitation. He was the school leader too.

This Senate, is a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; and it is here — it is here, in this exalted refuge; here, if anywhere, will resistance be made to the storms of political frenzy and the silent arts of corruption; and if the Constitution be destined ever to perish by the sacrilegious hands of the demagogue or the usurper, which God avert, its expiring agonies will be witnessed on this floor.

It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.

Welcome to the program. My name is Dave Letterman, and tonight I'm giving my two-week notice.

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.

When it's my last year, I'll probably let people know when that last pitch is thrown and say thanks and walk away.

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.