I Am Running Away Quotes

#1. What brings you here, Kit? No wish to offend you, but not quite the thing, you know!'

Her lip trembled. She replied with a catch in her voice: 'I am running away!'

'Oh, running away!' said Mr Standen, satisfied.

Georgette Heyer

#2. I am running away. They beat and ill-use me, Dick; and I am going to seek my fortune, some long way off. I don't know where.

Charles Dickens

#3. Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away".
"If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

Margaret Wise Brown

#4. I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.

Tennessee Williams

#5. My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks.

Sherman Alexie

#6. I certainly don't feel like I am desperate to run away from a film set. I love the hustle and bustle. Everything is sort of mad right before a take, and then it just settles, and you've got these two minutes of a bit of magic. I just love that in film.

Saoirse Ronan

#7. People run away, pull their hair, go off in different directions, nodding their heads and going, "Oh, God." I am slightly disheveled, I think. I'm really pleased that I am, because otherwise I could be in a really, really dull and boring place now, as a musician, at least.

Robert Plant

#8. I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California ... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.

Carlos Bulosan

#9. Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

Ziggy Marley

#10. Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police - whichever work the shorter hours.

Anthony Powell

#11. When I am scared of something, I run towards it, instead of away from it.

Michelle Rodriguez

#12. I am incognito; running away from scenes of the tested truths that I have so meticulously exacted before I am found guilty of the very things I have written.

Wyatt Michael

#13. I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

Ricky Schroder

#14. Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

Doug Cooper

#15. I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel like I have a history and a story. That's what I am and that's what I'll always be from. I was never running away from it.

Katy Perry

#16. I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Lorrie Moore

#17. Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Carlos Beltran

#18. i am good at holding onto nothing like it's all i have and running away from something like it's the plague. i

K.Y. Robinson

#19. Choices are our choices so I am not taking away anyone's personal choice, but we run into difficulty when we're having choices made for us rather than making our own.

Robert Moss

#20. You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

Steve "Lips" Kudlow

#21. The first time I saw her had been an accident. I was racing through the woods, attempting to run away from what I am, from the life I lived. Before I even heard her I caught her scent and I was lost. I stopped running and turned, seeking out what called to me. When I found her my life changed.

Cambria Hebert

#22. When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.

Carrie Snyder

#23. I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.

Ted Nugent

#24. Are you running away from something?

Prince Philip

#25. The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

Johnny Mercer

#26. I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.

Bill Hicks

#27. Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

Shirley Jackson