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Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. -- Amanda Lindhout
And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone. -- Mos Def
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory. -- Buzz Aldrin
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. -- Erich von Stroheim
Some people are born very far from home. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen. -- Jim Capaldi
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny. -- C. S. Lewis
There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here. -- Gautama Buddha
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home? -- Alice Sebold
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair. -- Mary Oliver
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there. -- Charles Spurgeon
Life is like that." papa turned once again to the MekongEverything is connected, and sometimes we, like little fishes, are awept up in these big and powerful currents. Carried far from home..." -- Vaddey Ratner
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again. -- Edward Thomas
Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home to die; The wind doth blow in every sky That wafts us to that doleful sea. -- John Addington Symonds
Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and alienated, like a refugee far from home in a universe that cares nothing for us. -- Eric Maisel
Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting. -- Melissa de la Cruz
Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go. -- Karen Cushman
I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran off and left me, and as darkness hurried in, I suddenly realised how far from home I was. -- John Burnside
I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done. -- John Green
Most people who desire God look for the God state too far from home, but the seed of spiritual greatness is in the heart of all. The spiritual exercises help one find a comfortable relationship with the Eck, the Holy Spirit - and with all life. -- Harold Klemp
Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know. -- Richard Ford
Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. -- Marcus Aurelius
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid. -- Catherine Opie
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. -- Mira Sorvino
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
The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak English, but they still know the lyrics. That's a trip. -- Tinashe
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children. -- Armstrong Williams
In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were determined to raise my two sisters and me according to Afghan traditions. -- Azita Ghanizada
Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because afternoons I go home for another. -- Charlie Rose
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Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing. -- Jennifer Aniston
In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones. -- Ray Comfort
UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours east of San Francisco and not far from where I spent most of my childhood. It's a part of California that has suffered deeply from the recession with high unemployment and a skyrocketing home foreclosure rate. -- Lester Holt
I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination. -- Anna Deavere Smith
flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. -- Herman Melville
May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination. -- Anna Deavere Smith
Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable. -- Paulette Jiles
When buying a new house ... Buy the house far enough away from school so your kids can't come home for lunch. -- Phyllis Diller
Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember. -- M. Scott Peck
Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society. -- Franklin P. Adams

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