Away From Home Quotes - Page 5

• I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.

  Hugh Masekela

  Mother, Running, Smart

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• I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.

  Jane Powell

  Dog, Husband, Home

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. Its like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but its almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.

  Laura Ramsey

  Running, Home, Kids

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

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• On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

  Catfish Hunter

  Home, Yankees, Two

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• My immediate instinct when faced with the questions from The Mail on Sunday ten days ago was to protect my family's privacy and particularly my son in his first term at university, living away from home.

  Cherie Blair

  Home, Sunday, Son

  "'Maybe I should have asked more questions'". The Times, December 11, 2002.

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• You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

  Ben Harper

  Running, Pain, Home

  Song: Up To You Now

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• Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Home, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.67

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• Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Real, Eye, Home

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• A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

  KAORI

  Crazy, Home, Men

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• I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Home, Imagination, Development

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• I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out of everything that I didn't quit. Kicked out of schools. Kicked out of summer camp, the Boy Scouts, the altar boys, the choir, and something else that I can't think of, that I'm proud of. Anyway, that was my pattern. I just began to invent myself early in life, and went out and did something about it.

  George Carlin

  Summer, Running, School

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time means to you once you're an artist and you travel so much.

  Schoolboy Q

  Home, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• When script is written well, then you start to make decisions of, "Well, do I want to be away from home for that long? Do I like the people involved?" When it's written well, a lot of those things go away and you can't not do it.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Home, Long, People

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• In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.

  W. C. Fields

  Running, Home, Average

  "DVD Retro Rec: The W.C. Fields Comedy Collection" by Mark Bourne, www.mtv.com. September 29, 2008.

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• When you're shooting a movie you are away from home most of the time. It's an amazing thing that we get to do what we get to do, but you definitely are away from the family more than you'd like to be.

  Adam Sandler

  Home, Shooting, Amazing Things

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I had some struggles later in my teenage years. I moved away from home and struggled a little bit being on my home and finding out who I was and trying to mix that with my faith and make it real. I learned a lot of lessons and made some mistakes along the way.

  Mike Fisher

  Teenage, Real, Mistake

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.

  Miriam Makeba

  Home, Glad, Hard

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• When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

  Kevin Costner

  Home, Kids, Two

  "Keeper of the flame" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2001.

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• It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

  Matt Dillon

  Growing Up, Home, Childhood

  "Matt Dillon Meets Fame... Diffidently". The Boston Globe, November 03, 1983.

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• Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Family, Hurt, Home

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• For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

  Walter Benjamin

  Running, Home, Age

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• I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

  Catherine Opie

  Home, School, Kids

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• If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

  Rick Moody

  Home, Berries, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

  Kerry King

  Fun, Home, Cities

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• I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.

  Colin Farrell

  Believe, Home, Son

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