Quotes About Separation

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

I think we're really hungry for family in America, especially when I feel like people are really pulled apart from their families.

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

In a perfect world, art and commerce, I think, could be in vacuums and coexist in full purity.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

I feel like everybody has an old flame: if you've had someone you've broken up with and then gotten back together with. Everybody goes through that. It's always a good moment when you've been away from somebody you loved for so long.

My family, they cannot have anything to do with us. They believe that, you know, their duty is to deliver me to Satan for the destruction of the flesh.

Whenever I get a job that's somewhere around America, I fly over my ex-wife and daughter and hang out with them.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

People always say to me, 'Well, how can a marriage last when you're away as much as you are?' And I always say, 'Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder.' That time apart from each other has actually strengthened our relationship.

I think the most important thing that you can do when you're newly separated, or just out of a relationship, is put your foot back in the water. Don't be afriad. Get out there. Life is too short!

My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.

The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.