From Home Quotes

#1. I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.

Sandra Bernhard

#2. I love playing video games. I love listening to music. Just surfing the web. Facebook, Twitter, keeping in touch with people from home.

Trey Burke

#3. If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are "no account," go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them

Mark Twain

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

KAORI

#5. I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

Mary Gaitskill

#6. 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

#7. The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.

Samantha Stosur

#9. I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#10. I was away from home, I was a virgin, I thought I had a soul.

Jonathan Aycliffe

#11. He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

Laura Kelly

#12. Before one travels abroad, it is best to have a simple, heartwarming soup from home, so that one can recall it fondly should one ever happen to feel a little

Amor Towles

#13. I like that I can drive 15 hours from home without the world changing too much.

John Green

#14. I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.

Frank Abagnale

#15. Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

Ella Maillart

#16. What are you doing eight
states away from home, Mr. Noel Springs? What's your story?"
"Short version?"
I couldn't resist flirting, just a little. "Long. Short. Whatever ya
got.

K.C. Kendricks

#17. Lots of travel, away from home.

Bob Hope

#18. 'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'

Kristina McMorris

#19. Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.

Tim Cope

#20. 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

#21. I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home.

James A. Connolly

#22. Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been more than ten miles from home, you were part of the puzzle, too. It didn't matter how small your life was.

Paul Auster

#23. Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.

Chien-Ming Wang

#24. Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.

Elizabeth Janeway

#25. We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.

Bruce Springsteen

#26. 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

#27. I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

Rachel Sklar

#28. And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

Mos Def

#29. Having a limp is okay, probably cool, if you are a desk jockey working from home, but poor publicity if you are a physical therapist.

Adele Levine

#30. Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#31. I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

Bill Klem

#32. Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

Michelle Yeoh

#33. Most people who desire God look for the God state too far from home, but the seed of spiritual greatness is in the heart of all. The spiritual exercises help one find a comfortable relationship with the Eck, the Holy Spirit - and with all life.

Harold Klemp

#34. The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.

Edward Thomas

#35. I wonder if this is it. If I have finally flown too far from home. I think of Ramonda and Ororo. Zuri and W'Kabi. Father and S'yan. But above all, I think of you. and I think of dying out here, of drifting out here, in search of but far away from you.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#36. How did you know about the pool?" I asked my mother. "Colt told Morrie, Morrie told Jack, Jack told me," Mom answered. Next time I ran away from home, I was going to a big city. The biggest. In China. Where not only were there billions of people, I didn't speak their language and they had good food.

Kristen Ashley

#37. It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a writing room that my grandchildren consider one of their playrooms.

Cynthia Voigt

#38. Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be

Tea Obreht

#39. It was actually my older brother who wanted to start acting. He would point at the TV as a kid and tell my mom he wanted to do it, and he would act his favorite scenes from 'Home Alone.'

Kevin Schmidt

#40. 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

#41. Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realizing you've got to make your own way.

Saoirse Ronan

#42. I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.

Karin Slaughter

#43. This place is starting to feel like a home away from home," Rusty said, settling on the sofa. "We come here, we discuss evil sorcerers, we eat packets of peanuts. It's a soothing and familiar routine. Or it would be if people would just bring me some peanuts.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

Jamaica Kincaid

#47. I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.

Gerard Way

#48. You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

Patrice Leconte

#49. It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

Sean Bean

#50. Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Phyllis Diller

#51. I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

Felicity Jones

#52. You can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager. Remote work is very likely the least of your problems.

Jason Fried

#53. When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.

Jesse Kellerman

#54. 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

#55. Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.

Ray Stubbs

#56. An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

Bum Phillips

#57. To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world.

Charles Baudelaire

#58. Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

Cheyenne Jackson

#59. Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

Jim Capaldi

#60. 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

#61. The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

Anthony Liccione

#62. 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

#63. Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

Chelsea Cain

#64. I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home.

Pierre Dukan

#65. 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

#66. Cause this place is a home away from home where you can forget about all that painful stuff and just be yourself with the people who, like, truly get - or at least truly want to get - who you are.

Stacy Davidowitz

#67. What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?" And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, "What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#68. Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

Ellis Peters

#69. In a certain way working in animation has become very democratic because now anyone with the right technology can at least prepare a project from home in order to attract investors. Some people can even set up a small home studio and start working.

Raul Garcia

#70. When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

Patrick Swayze

#71. I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

Joanne Froggatt

#72. I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

Laura Osnes

#73. I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home.

Bobby Heenan

#74. In 1974, we began franchising. We didn't have any big thought process except that, 'OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.'

Fred DeLuca

#75. Well, long way from home and,
Can't sleep at all.
You know another mule,
Is kickin in your stall.

Willie Dixon

#76. What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

Paul Theroux

#77. Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?

Ardeth Kapp

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

Neil Gaiman

#79. To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

Doug Liman

#80. I should have known that the cruelty of girls is intensified here, living together 24/7, hundreds of miles away from home.

Cat Clarke

#81. We have travelled a long distance from the cow with a bucket of raw milk under its udder. We are a long way from home.' This

Deborah Levy

#82. I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

Peter MacKay

#83. An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.

Auren Hoffman

#84. 'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.

Kristina McMorris

#85. Here, now. What have we here?' Blade whispered. 'A little kitten, all of my own,' he purred. 'Far from home'.

Bec McMaster

#86. My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

Tina Turner

#87. I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.

Pierce Brosnan

#88. With your lunch box, do not forget to carry courtesy, respect, and gratitude from home!

Rupali Desai

#89. While the train racketed along, he sorted his currency into envelopes that he'd brought from home - each envelope clearly marked with a different denomination. (No fumbling with unfamiliar coins, no peering at misleading imprints, if you separate and classify foreign money ahead of time.)

Anne Tyler

#90. I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

Andrea Bocelli

#91. Hey Pete. What's up?"
"'What's up? You ran away from home!"
Dropping my backpack on a bench, I sat down and looked out at the water. "I'll be back next Monday. Is that still considered running away?"
I pulled the phone away from my ear as he hollered, "Yes, that's still running away!

H.R. Willaston

#92. Bacon has been a staple of the American diet since the first European settlers, but until recently, it was consumed in a predictable, seasonal pattern. The bulk of sales came from home consumers, diners, and pancake houses, which fried it up along with eggs for breakfast.

David Sax

#93. The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home ... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion ... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#94. Celebrity has become a burden. There are more demands on your time. People think it is glamorous to fly places. But it is not - even if you travel business class and stay in wonderful hotels, you end 10,000 miles away from home.

Nouriel Roubini

#95. 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

#96. Life is truly weird ... And it's not getting any less weird the farther I get from home.

Jonathan Maberry

#97. As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.

Margaret Mead

#98. Why was I led astray by a tiger brightness? Why did a false sun lure me so far from home? ... my eyes had looked at something forbidden and seen what they should never have seen, and now sight itself had gone out of them ... never again would I see the blinding glare of enemy eyes.

Anna Kavan

#99. I love what I'm doing here but I hate being away from home. I hate it. I look forward to one day raising a family myself, and I really look forward to children but when that day comes, I don't want to be an absent dad. I'm already an absent husband.

Chuck Ragan

#100. Working from home or going on maternity leave is no excuse to let go of your look. The more you schlep around in drawstring pants and tees, the less you're going to be able to pull yourself together when necessary.

Nina Garcia