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Quotes About Away

But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.
~ Lauren Wolk, Wolf Hollow
Do you know what my rabbi says? That the mark of a man is his contradictions. We can long to be away and at home, both at the same time.
~ David Lagercrantz
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
~ Cormac McCarthy
God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!
~ Tom Waits
From a just fraud God turneth not away.
~ Aeschylus
In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
~ T. S. Eliot
I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.
~ Hank Aaron
Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.
~ Nicole Ari Parker
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
~ Clarence Darrow
That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.
~ Nick Hornby
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
~ Anne Carson, Decreation
Food, " I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.
~ Robert Graves
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
~ Michael Jordan
No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.
~ The Doctor
Cutcutcutcutcutcut . . . At 4:10, the machine lifted off the roof of Mitford Hospital and, in the starless night, burned itself away.
~ Jan Karon
We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your having such very delightful weather for the whole of your journey...
~ Jane Austen
When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.
~ Jane Jacobs
superstitions of a long Cornish ancestry, had touched wood (but only without legs, for fear your luck would walk away from you)
~ Jane Johnson
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.
~ Edith Wharton
Change starts, proceeds, and ends with Jesus. We look to Jesus and away from ourselves.
~ Edward T. Welch
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
~ Alfred
In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.
~ Jeb Hensarling
I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
~ Bill Pullman