Quotes About Running Away From Home

#1. And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?"
"Can't girls seek their fortune?"
"I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Well, I'm not running away from home, I'm running away to home." "Oh,

Sara Pennypacker

#3. Adventure must start with running away from home.

William Bolitho

#4. 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

#5. Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

George Eliot

#6. 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

#7. All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through.

Graham Greene

#8. I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.

Gerry Lindgren

#9. When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

Pearl S. Buck

#10. She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

Beatrice Sparks

#11. 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

#12. I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

Green Day

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

Edward Young

#14. 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

#15. ...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia

E.L. Konigsburg

#16. Me & my fellow fairies are running away from a huge monster that keeps destroying our home land,sobbed Farina.
The monster is terribly scary,has huge jaws, creates clouds of smoke & makes loads of noise everywhere it goes.

Magda M. Olchawska

#17. Hey Pete. What's up?"
"'What's up? You ran away from home!"
Dropping my backpack on a bench, I sat down and looked out at the water. "I'll be back next Monday. Is that still considered running away?"
I pulled the phone away from my ear as he hollered, "Yes, that's still running away!

H.R. Willaston

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

Mary Church Terrell

#19. I guess that's the really nice thing about disappearing: the part where people look for you and beg you to come home.

Lauren Oliver

#20. Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Carlos Beltran

#24. In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

T. S. Eliot

#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. It's not running away when you're going back home.

Paul Acampora

#27. 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

#28. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

Pico Iyer

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

Red Skelton

#30. 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

#31. I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

Carol Vorderman

#32. Although I was the one cast out alone onto a transcontinental bus, home was running away from me

Ivan Doig