Top 100 Quotes About Leave Home
#1. Everything is about them now." "One day they will be grown and leave home and you will just be a source of embarrassment or exasperation for them and they won't take your phone calls or won't call you for weeks,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#2. Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes. But sometimes home doesn't like it.
Gregory Maguire
#3. Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.
Alan Cohen
#4. I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?
Irvin D. Yalom
#5. We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.
Jane Ridley
#6. But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.
Richard Rodriguez
#7. I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.
Carole Landis
#8. Mac knocks on the door. After he updates Spider, he asks, "Do you have your weapon with you?"
"Yes, it's like my American Express card. I never leave home without it." Mac hears Spider lock and load the weapon. Reassured that Spider is going to be all right, he walks out the front door.
David McKoy
#9. Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Alan Moore
#10. I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.
Maya Angelou
#11. It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.
Franz Kafka
#12. He was a gay man who had to leave home to find himself, not a gay man who had found himself within his own home.
Jameson Currier
#13. Never leave home without a great gloss: Dior Addict Perfecto is one of my faves.
Amber Le Bon
#15. In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.
Jean Little
#16. Nope, she didn't. So we grow up and leave home, and I hear from my mum that Madeline has married some wanker, said Ed.
Liane Moriarty
#17. Our bodies, warm comfortable and familiar. But when we look out ... . Just out there, we wonder if we occupy a special place..!! Are these bodies welcoming or hostel..!! We can stay forever wondering or maybe we can leave home for the ultimate adventure
Sameh Elsayed
#18. I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#19. You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
Maya Angelou
#20. I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
Candice Bergen
#21. There are traditionalists, and there are people in the middle, which is where I am. I still get my newspaper delivered. I love the ritual of it. But I also jump into the cab when I leave home and I look at some BBC on my iPad.
Glenda Bailey
#22. The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.
Marlene Targ Brill
#23. Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent. When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.
Warren Buffett
#24. To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving.
Brad Pitt
#25. Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
Garrett Hedlund
#26. I have a necklace around my neck that my lady gave me, so I try never to leave home without that.
Chad Michael Murray
#27. Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own - the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home.
Graeme Sparkes
#28. I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, (but) I just don't care to leave home.
Fats Domino
#29. This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.
Ben Aaronovitch
#30. Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several
Richard Marcinko
#31. When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
Zach Roerig
#32. If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.
Vivian Gornick
#33. With such disappointing lunkheads for parents, naturally Petunia must leave home.
Paul Schmid
#34. Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.
Paul Theroux
#35. When life gets tough, when you're overwhelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living for Christ is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet. At death you won't leave home - you'll go home.
Rick Warren
#36. When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.
Kris Kristofferson
#37. In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.
Chuck Palahniuk
#38. Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.
Daphne Oz
#39. Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.
Mary Lou Williams
#40. There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to be emotionally waterboarded.
Rob Lowe
#41. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will.
Margaret Atwood
#42. You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.
Gregory Maguire
#44. It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary ... it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.
Sally Mann
#45. Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.
Sharon Gannon
#46. Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door
Harry Wong
#47. The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.
Maya Angelou
#48. Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.
Iwan Rheon
#49. If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
Betty Friedan
#50. You know how they say you can never go home again?
Yeah.
They're full of it. The truth is, you can never leave home. Not completely.
Jay Bell
#51. Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it's important for me to be as strong as I can when I leave home so I can hold space for all of it.
Jason Mraz
#52. Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.
John Irving
#53. Most of the research done on happiness suggests that people actually become less happy when they have children and do not begin to approach their prior level of happiness until their children leave home.
Sam Harris
#54. I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
Jill Scott
#55. You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
Sue Monk Kidd
#56. I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
Julian Baggini
#57. If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.
Park Chan-wook
#58. I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.
Nayvadius Cash
#59. The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.
Richard Rohr
#60. My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.
Erin O'Connor
#61. If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.
Molly Ringwald
#63. Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience
buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello
become new all over again.
Anthony Doerr
#64. If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Zig Ziglar
#65. Are we ready?"
"You have your dagger?"
"I rarely leave home without it."
"Then to the Batcave, Sentinel.
Chloe Neill
#66. Don't leave home without your Wizer ... it's an ugly world out there
Clyde DeSouza
#67. If you want to be a photographer, first leave home
Steve McCurry
#68. Please, don't spare my self-confidence, sir. I never take it with me when I leave home.
Max Frei
#69. Franz Kafka wrote, "It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you." And Kafka was born a century before the Internet!
Austin Kleon
#70. I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.
James Avery
#71. It is hard to leave home, and sometimes it takes a long time. *
John Darnielle
#73. You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Anita Baker
#74. I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding the subways of New York City, where I live.
Andrea Davis Pinkney
#76. I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
Sally Mann
#77. Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.
Rupert Grint
#78. Only those who leave home ever really find it.
Gene Ruyle
#79. Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.
Buddy Guy
#80. Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
Dirk Benedict
#82. I don't leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers. I don't leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer.
Kyrie Irving
#83. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
Alice Hoffman
#84. We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.
Georgina Chapman
#85. You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Lucille Ball
#86. Peace of Mind? Don't leave home (or go home) without it.
Bill Crawford
#87. We have made Christmas about coming home and being comfortable. Jesus' approach to Christmas was to leave home and be uncomfortable.
Dick Brogden
#88. In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So my parents just thought I was going to be one of those kids. I was like, "I'm never going to make a living at whatever I do." I just liked pretty things.
Jason Wu
#89. Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.
Moby
#90. For day-to-day beauty, I'm a Q-tip and Vaseline kind of girl. I never leave home without Q-tips - they're a great fix for any makeup emergencies.
Scarlett Johansson
#91. I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.
Dinah Sheridan
#92. You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.
Miranda Lambert
#93. I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.
Kesh
#94. I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.
Brad Goreski
#95. I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.
John Amaechi
#96. Once there was a boy who had to leave home...and find another.
Rebecca Young
#97. I love to walk. Back home, I do that every day. I leave home and walk, and go walk for hours.
Gregorio Sablan
#98. Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.
Shauna Niequist
#99. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore. So I dance.
Melina Marchetta
#100. Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
Aretha Franklin
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