I Want To Run Away From Home Quotes

#1. While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Mary Church Terrell

#2. 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

#3. The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

Edward Young

#4. I stayed there only a week before I ran away. That was the first of many times I would run from a foster home. It was, after all, a foster home, and I did not belong there. It turned out that I did not belong anywhere.

Waln K. Brown

#5. The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'

Ben Mendelsohn

#6. Together they'd run away. Together they could find a place to call home. Together they'd finally form their own constellation and never break apart again. He would be her starlight again and she his sun.

Hella Grichi

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

Phyllis Diller

#8. When he had gone home, he had been frightened, he had refused to face what he saw. But he had not really wanted to come home to a land, only to a pas; and not finding the past there, he had run away, fearing the reality, preferring the dream.

Nick Joaquin

#9. 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

#10. Be a dad. Don't be "Mom's Assistant" ... Be a man ... Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on. Spend time with your kids ... It won't take away your manhood, it will give it to you.

Louis C.K.

#11. I, Lilah McCannon, aged twenty-five, have just run away from home. I am trying not to think about it too much. Every time I do, I start to hyperventilate with that hitched breathing that precedes a full-scale panic attack.

Anna Bloom

#12. In the ten years since I had run away from home ... I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.

W.C. Fields

#13. For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

Walter Benjamin

#14. Joe had run away, escaped without a trace, and come here to hide. But now he was ready to come home. The problem was that he didn't know how to do it.

Michael Chabon

#15. When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark ...

Rodney Dangerfield

#16. When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Hugh Jackman

#17. We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.

Selma Dabbagh

#18. I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend, I'll be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.

Robbie Williams

#19. The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.

Tom Verlaine

#20. To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you're always likely to run afoul of some agency or other.

Michel Houellebecq

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

Carlos Beltran

#22. I needed to run away in order to come home.

Patti Davis

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

Twyla Tharp

#24. I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.

Sue Monk Kidd

#25. I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional.
When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#26. Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

James Joyce

#27. Home is where I am. Remember that next time you decide you need to run away." I

Claire Contreras

#28. Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.

Red Skelton

#29. I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision.

David Ortiz

#30. Serena hadn't told Sydney to go home. She hadn't told her to run away. She told her to go somewhere safe. And over the course of the last week, safe had ceased to be a place for Sydney, and had become a person.

Specifically, safe had become Victor.

V.E Schwab