Quotes About Children Leaving Home

#1. Greek has a formula for every event - weddings, christenings, buying a new dress, having a haircut, talking about children, going away, coming back, leaving a house, leaving a home. Kalo risiko is for a new house. Kalo means good. Risiko means fate, but sounds ominously like danger.

John Mole

#2. I don't know and I don't care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it.
I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.

Barry Lyga

#3. By staying, by shirking the responsibility and effort of leaving, by continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a public companion nor a welcoming home-do I do wrong?

Anna Lyndsey

#4. Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Robin Day

#5. Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. I'd learned very quickly that I could create a fair amount of chaos with very little effort. Some defense lawyers call it "making the State come off their mountain to fight on my molehill." I just called it fun.

Scott Pratt

#7. People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

Curtis Sliwa

#8. When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

David Duval

#9. They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as he would have to learn to be an adult in the world, so would I have to learn to live without him.

Sallyann Murphey

#11. However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#12. Your trials can release your Gifts and Dreams. Your trials can set you free.

Bo Sanchez

#13. A friend was someone who knew every dark part of a person, and still liked them for it.

Hollow Ryan

#14. Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

Alexander MacLaren

#15. If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

Eric Braeden

#16. All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Bodhidharma

#17. It is probably easier to land a quadruple jump in ice-skating than to get my five children to depart our home in a timely manner. Everyone knows leaving anywhere with a large group is extremely difficult. I don't know how Moses did it.

Jim Gaffigan

#18. I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

John Ridley

#19. I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

Hattie Morahan

#20. In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

Bill Viola

#21. Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. I do not relish leaving home, leaving my children, leaving the familiarity of my bed, my coffee maker, my slippers, but I do love hotels.

Nickolas Butler