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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. -- Twyla Tharp
The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night. -- Edward Irving
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night. -- Charlie Watts
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. -- Gail Collins
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
I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock. -- Naomie Harris
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space. -- Chris Hadfield
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
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. -- Audrey Hepburn
many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill. -- Judy Delton
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. -- Florence King
It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home. -- Scott Westerfeld
That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference. -- Tom Bodett
I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio. -- Harry Redknapp
I need energy every day. Whether I'm leaving home and going to practice or getting in the car with my two kids to take my son to school - I need all the energy I can get. -- Chris Paul
Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room. -- Rick Steves
The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares. -- Herman Melville
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. Anzaldúa
Art is running away without ever leaving home. -- Twyla Tharp
Men dream more about coming home than about leaving. -- Paulo Coelho
I want to leave my country without leaving my home. -- Kirkpatrick Sale
It's very difficult leaving the house anytime with my baby at home. -- Mariska Hargitay
For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home. -- Phil Klay
Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving. -- Shannon L. Alder
Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500. -- Jerry Coleman
There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime. -- Paul Simon
Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home. -- Huston Smith
I'm tired of leaving my wife at home with no nanny and no cook to take care of four kids by herself. -- Jeff Kent
Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face. -- John Bradshaw
There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home? -- Chen Guangcheng
As you know, Hurricane Sandy has affected thousands of families, leaving them without electricity, without household goods and, in the worst cases, without a home. -- Thalia
England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do. -- Kevin Kilbane
I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day. -- Nicolas Cage
I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home. -- Deborah Curtis
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability. -- Buzz Aldrin
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
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. -- James Buchanan
Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society â?? your home â?? tells you is important. -- Brad Warner

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