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Quotes About Away

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
~ Salman Rushdie
That was why the Almighty had given us prayer, to distinguish man from animals, to leave the beasts inside of us locked away.
~ Alice Hoffman
then they both turned away for a moment from the peppered wind. When
~ Alice McDermott
That was like a hand clapped against Rose's chest, not to hurt, but astonish her, to take her breath away .
~ Alice Munro
And i was gone.
~ Alice Sebold
But, in this life, we have too few chances of happiness to throw any away.
~ Alison Weir
Keys turn both ways. You can lock something away... But you can also throw a bolt and set something free.
~ Joe Hill
And he paddled away in his douche canoe," Bilbo said.
~ Joe Hill
Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.
~ Ray Davies
The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.
~ Bob Hope
Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
~ Knut Hamsun
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
~ Anonymous
The Queen of HeartsShe made some tarts,All on a summer's day;The Knave of HeartsHe stole the tarts,And took them clean away.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Sukey, take it off again,They've all gone away.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Rain, rain, go away,Come again another day.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
There were two blackbirds,Sitting on a hill,The one named Jack,The other named Jill;Fly away, Jack! Fly away, Jill!Come again, Jack! Come again, Jill!
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Nobody was greatly bothered when it was noticed that Gnaeus' little brother, Sextus, had slipped away
~ Anthony Everitt
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
~ Ivan Turgenev
We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.
~ Jeff Sessions
You have to be able to get enough points from your away games or it puts difficulty on your home games.
~ Chris Hughton
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
~ Joanna Newsom
I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
~ Boz Scaggs
In the second part of my life, away from cycling, I hope I will be able to benefit fully from my family and children in the same way that cycling gave me such joy.
~ Richard Virenque
I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.
~ Francesca Lia Block