Quotes About Family Leaving Home

#1. She would hurt and be unhappy when she woke up, but she would live. That's all that mattered. That's everything that mattered.

Thea Harrison

#2. What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.

Jules Olitski

#3. Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. I have been saying yes to being fat. Which is WHY I'm now so fat. I'm not a failure; I'm successfully fat. I didn't let go of the wheel; I just turned the car down the fat road.

Shonda Rhimes

#5. Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors

Laila Ibrahim

#6. Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.

Sissy Spacek

#7. One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#8. Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

Orison Swett Marden

#9. They were streetwalkers, women who sold themselves for money to men- good, God-fearing men who went to church with their wives the following Sunday without a care.

Chris Priestley

#10. Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Marcel Proust

#11. I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

Chuck D

#12. The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true

Stephen King

#13. All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.

Joanna Lumley

#14. To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#15. She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations.

Ian McEwan

#16. Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)

Eileen Granfors

#17. I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it.

Rihanna

#18. An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

Geza Vermes

#19. By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

Rabih Alameddine

#20. What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.

Mira Bartok

#21. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

David Byrne

#22. The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

Emma Thompson