Away From Home Quotes - Page 2

• I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.

  Adrien Broner

  Xbox, Motivation, Dad

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• If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

  Will Carleton

  Home, Heaven, Earth

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.72, Applewood Books

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• Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Loneliness, Home, People

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• The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

  Carrie Underwood

  Home, College, Hours

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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• After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it.

  Tessa Dare

  Running, Home, Wish

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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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• I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

  Hugh Laurie

  Home, Oil, Rigs

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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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• You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

  Colm Toibin

  Real, Home, School

  "You can take the man out of Ireland". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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• I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Home, Tired

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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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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• God is out there watching you, even when you're away from home and that if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Home, Trust In God, Ends

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Running, Home

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.119, Random House

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• You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Home, World

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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