Family Miles Away Quotes

#1. The world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work ... We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.

Ralph Fiennes

#2. When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

Christopher Gist

#3. I know I should try harder to make her feel necessary in my life. It totally freaked her when I said I didn't need her anymore. But isn't that the whole point of growing up? A healthy bird can fly the nest? Roots and wings and all that Hallmarky crap?

Kate Klise

#4. I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. On the way to discovering what we love we find what we hate and everything that blocks are path to what we desire

John O'Callaghan

#6. You're my wife," he said. "I want to take care of you, even if that means someday seeing you to the train.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

Alexander Cockburn

#8. I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.

Rachel Zoe

#9. I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

Karin Slaughter

#10. He knows that something somewhere has to break/He sees the family home now looming in the headlights/The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache/
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage/on the shore of a dark Scottish lake

Sting

#11. I work in an industry where everyone is flawlessly beautiful, but I just want to be healthy.

Anna Torv

#12. If you never love you never hurt
If you never hurt you've never lived.
Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it.

Sophia Nam

#13. We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter.

Heidi Klum

#14. My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.

Louis Sachar

#15. When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.

Ahmed Zewail

#16. The answer to enemies who heal annoyingly fast is always, always decapitation. That is why swords will never go out of style.

Kevin Hearne