Top 100 Quotes About Away From Home
#1. Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#2. I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.
Hugh Laurie
#3. Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there's a routine going on that I'm not a part of, so that can be difficult.
Lee Ann Womack
#4. The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.
Carrie Underwood
#5. Obviously, I'm recognized on the street and I am away from home a lot more and, let's face it, I have an action figure of myself!
Emma Watson
#6. The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.
Mike Trout
#7. I was thinking of Cambridge, and then I got a bit homesick for a minute, 'cause I never been this far away from home before. But the I remember you're here, and now I'm not homesick no more.
J.L. Merrow
#8. On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'
Catfish Hunter
#9. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
E.W. Howe
#10. If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.
Alan Jackson
#11. The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak English, but they still know the lyrics. That's a trip.
Tinashe
#12. Away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. International financiers change their names and vanish
Diana Gabaldon
#13. You never want to get away from home as much as you do when you're fifteen years old. It's like her mom usually says when the cold and darkness have worn away at her patience and she's had three or four glasses of wine :"you can't live in this town,maya,you can only survive it.
Fredrik Backman
#14. Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.
Jen Lancaster
#15. The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel
Saving Private Ryan
Tom Hanks
#16. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world - impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.
Charles Baudelaire
#17. England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.
Justin Timberlake
#18. When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there's your proof.
Dennis Cooper
#19. I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.
Jane Powell
#20. Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.
Red Skelton
#21. I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Quincy Jones
#22. Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.
Cate Blanchett
#23. I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.
Michelle Branch
#24. You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw.
Kevin Keegan
#25. Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.
Cate Blanchett
#26. If I did a TV show, it would have to be in North London because I'm a bit of a homebody, and my work takes me away from home enough. But yeah absolutely. Television has never been more exciting than it is now.
Simon Pegg
#27. The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.
Paul Theroux
#28. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#29. Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages.
Rachel Gathercole
#30. Things away from home often look better than they are.
Willa Cather
#31. Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye
Jackie Kennedy
#32. You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
Colm Toibin
#33. When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time means to you once you're an artist and you travel so much.
Schoolboy Q
#34. It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.
Matt Dillon
#35. Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#36. Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters
which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator.
Calvin Trillin
#37. We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#38. You know, it's funny what you'll miss when you're away from home. Now me, I miss the smell of coffee ... and bacon frying in the morning.
Fannie Flagg
#40. Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.
Lisa Kristine
#41. It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.
Miriam Makeba
#42. When you're shooting a movie you are away from home most of the time. It's an amazing thing that we get to do what we get to do, but you definitely are away from the family more than you'd like to be.
Adam Sandler
#43. The lowlights ... Sometimes you're away from home quite a lot, which can be difficult. It's not first class all the way, you don't stay in exotic hotels and have people running after you.
Jill Douglas
#44. I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
Tom Hanks
#45. He hams his Brummie accent, I tell myself, the way so many ex-pats ham their lost identity. The moustache is a pose. Yet, he hams this unpredictable matey belligerence, this curiously Midlands attitude. Colin is home away from home, I reflect, even if not the home you ever really liked.
Tim Parks
#46. I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.
Josephine Baker
#47. I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#48. It's not ... not as easy to break away from home as I thought it'd be.
Marilyn Brant
#49. Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
Jackie Kennedy
#50. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off someone.
Jojo Moyes
#51. I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!
David Jason
#52. 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
#53. A life without a vision is like a kite let loose; it is directed by the forces that be, never giving even the slightest of resistance to life's pressures, eventually ending up far away from home (that comfortable place).
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#54. We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.
Justin Timberlake
#55. I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
Catherine Opie
#56. All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
Kate Moss
#57. Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.
Sylvia Browne
#58. I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.
Margaret Cho
#59. The way of education leads away from home. That is what we learned from our children's education.
Wendell Berry
#61. 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
#62. It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.
Martina Mcbride
#63. If you were away from home, you had to use a phone attached by a wire to the wall. It was terrible.
Terry Pratchett
#64. It's easier for me to get ready for a game on the road because you're expected to lose when you play away from home. That's a challenge to right there and that perks my competitive juices.
Michael Jordan
#65. 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
#66. I know what it's like to have friends in other Clans. To feel that there's something stronger that your Clan calling you away from home.
Erin Hunter
#67. 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
#69. You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.
Pedro Martinez
#70. Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
Ian McEwan
#71. Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing.
Carlo Ancelotti
#72. 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
#73. I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
Zadie Smith
#74. 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
#75. A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.
KAORI
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Lots of travel, away from home.
Bob Hope
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.
Michelle Yeoh
#87. 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
#88. Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
Tea Obreht
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.
Sean Bean
#97. Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller
#98. When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.
Jesse Kellerman
#99. 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
#100. Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.
Ray Stubbs
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
