Run Away From Home Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. You can't run away from home. It's not home if you want to run away from it.

Michele Jaffe

#4. After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home - she'd actually done it.

Tessa Dare

#5. You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

Neil Gaiman

#6. Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Phyllis Diller

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Mary Church Terrell

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

Red Skelton

#13. 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

#14. This is your home." He reached up his other hand and gripped my face, pressing down hard against my cheeks.
I nodded.
"Say it!"
"I won't run," I whispered as I watched an angry tear trickling from his eye. I leaned forward and licked it away.

T.J. Klune

#15. All I'm saying is that you can run away from a town or a house, but I'm not so sure you can run away from your home.

Susan Gregg Gilmore

#16. In 1974, we began franchising. We didn't have any big thought process except that, 'OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.'

Fred DeLuca

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

Edward Young

#18. I stayed there only a week before I ran away. That was the first of many times I would run from a foster home. It was, after all, a foster home, and I did not belong there. It turned out that I did not belong anywhere.

Waln K. Brown

#19. Together they'd run away. Together they could find a place to call home. Together they'd finally form their own constellation and never break apart again. He would be her starlight again and she his sun.

Hella Grichi

#20. When he had gone home, he had been frightened, he had refused to face what he saw. But he had not really wanted to come home to a land, only to a pas; and not finding the past there, he had run away, fearing the reality, preferring the dream.

Nick Joaquin

#21. I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend, I'll be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.

Robbie Williams

#22. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

#23. Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

James Joyce

#24. 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

#25. When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Hugh Jackman