Leaving Home Quotes

• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Dance, Running

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• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

  John Bradshaw

  Growing Up, Self Esteem, Home

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• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Home, Understanding, Deep Thought

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

  Charlie Watts

  Hate, Home, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Home, Leaving, Done

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Children, Home, Parent

  Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

  Maya Angelou

  Home, Truth Is, Cozy Home

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

  Chris Hadfield

  Risk, Growing, Worthwhile

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• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Family

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2010

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• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

  Frank A. Clark

  Children, Parenting, Important

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• There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

  Paul Simon

  Dream, Home, Leaving

  Song: Another Galaxy, Album: Surprise, 2006

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• If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

  Steve McCurry

  Funny, Photography, Home

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• The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares.

  Herman Melville

  Travel, Home, Heart

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.422, Northwestern University Press

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• Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Home, Space, Flying

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• That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

  Tom Bodett

  Home, Differences, Leaving

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• Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.

  Brad Warner

  Attitude, Truth, Mean

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.158, New World Library

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• Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Marriage, Sorry

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• If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Father, Home

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• The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

  Edward Irving

  Home, Boys, Night

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• A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Fear, People, Leaving

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Home, Boys, Leaving

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Strong, Home, Oil

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