Away From Home Quotes

• May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Teamwork, Travel, Home

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• Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.

  Michelle Branch

  Mom, Jobs, Couple

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• The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nice, Home, Feelings

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• Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Moving, Home, Never Quit

  "Spring Fling Is Not Important". Interview with Brooke McCord, www.wonderlandmagazine.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

  Jackie Kennedy

  Home, Eye, Looks

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• To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Home, Honest

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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• While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Girl, Running, Home

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• I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the same time. It is inevitable that my perspective will be international.

  Kwame Dawes

  Home, Perspective, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Wheat Fields, Rivers

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• Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Home, Differences

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• I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Girl, Home, Years

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.133, Macmillan

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• To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Home, World, Tongue

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Home

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• I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

  Franz Kafka

  Home, Writing, Long

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• She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

  Maureen Johnson

  Home, College, People

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Last Little Blue Envelope”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

  Josh Turner

  Song, Home, Long

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• When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

  Patrick Swayze

  Home, People, Might

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• I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

  Zadie Smith

  Home, Ideas, Literature

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• All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

  Kate Moss

  Home, Scary, Attention

  "Kate Moss: Enduring Style". Interview with Madeline Rudin, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2014.

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• It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.

  Martina McBride

  Home, Performing, Highlights

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• Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

  Heath Ledger

  Jobs, Home, Thinking

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Boys, Asian

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Nice, Book, Writing

  "Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Hitch-22". "Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. July 13, 2010.

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