Quotes About Separation

I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

The only thing I'm afraid of is not coming home to my family.

Commerce and politics do not go with royalty, full stop.

You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.

I'm Catholic. I believe life begins at conception, but I'm also American, and I believe in the separation of church and state. A woman's right to choose is the law of the land, and I support that.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

Brexit is actually a step back in the sense that you are going back from being connected to being on your own.

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

I've learnt to separate the woman who was my mother from the person who was a movie star. The star has survived, my mother didn't.

It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.

I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

For many of us, we imagine that separation is crucial, the time for your mind to switch from one thing to another is important. And there are other people who are much more comfortable with that barrier being on a spectrum, always working or always semi-working.

My parents sent me to Switzerland on a Kindertransport.

For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.

A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.

There is a separation - a very clear separation - between the judiciary, the legal system, and the political system in this country, and that's why Labor has a problem with the issue of mandatory sentencing as a principle.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

It's just hard that moving on sometimes means leaving people behind.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.