Leaving Home Quotes - Page 2

• To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Live Life, Home, Turtles

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• The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.

  Laozi

  Country, Moving, Home

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• America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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• The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

  Gail Collins

  Jobs, Ocean, Home

  Gail Collins (2009). “America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.

  June Allyson

  Stars, Children, Coffee

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

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• I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Morning, Home

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• I knew that this was something that was going to be an intense experience, just from the way I typically approach my work. I did not take the fact that I was going to portray a soldier lightly. It was so very important to me that I came across as believable and honest and truthful. I wanted to be able to convey the psychology behind the choice of leaving home for an extended period of time, knowing that you may never come back while still being a devoted parent.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Home, Knowing, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.

  Rick Steves

  Home, Thinking, Self

  Rick Steves (2014). “Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act”, p.16, Avalon Travel

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• Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, Government

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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• Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.

  Bill Ayers

  Home, School, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I need energy every day. Whether I'm leaving home and going to practice or getting in the car with my two kids to take my son to school - I need all the energy I can get.

  Chris Paul

  Home, School, Kids

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

  Naomie Harris

  Home, Leaving, Blame

  "Naomie Harris: 'I want to play Elizabeth Bennet'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Running, Home, Cupcakes

  "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler". Book by L. Konigsburg, 1967.

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• Art is running away without ever leaving home.

  Twyla Tharp

  Running, Art, Home

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• Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.

  Sissy Spacek

  Home, Guitar, Support

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• many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

  Judy Delton

  Believe, Home, Skills

  Judy Delton (1991). “The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them”, Writer's Digest Books

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