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Quotes About Separation

British and American children are often put in a separate room, right away or after a few weeks or months.
~ Richard D. Lewis
Legal segregation was long gone, but a strong tradition prevailed in both communities that it was best to live separately.
~ Richard Grant
Family separations were probably the most brutal, heartless aspect of American slavery, although many slaveholders claimed that blacks, being less than fully human, weren't particularly bothered by it.
~ Richard Grant
Washington was well aware that in a representative government, a government of laws not of men, separating the man from the title was essential.
~ Richard Greener
Wealth, too, is often separated into various mental accounts. At the bottom of this hierarchy sits the money that is easiest to spend: cash.
~ Richard H Thaler
I couldn't tell you, Robert, what the higher ramifications are of being soul mates. I can tell you this however. As long as you are separated from your own, that long are you troubled. No matter what the circumstances, no matter how exquisite the environment in which you find yourself. To be half
~ Richard Matheson
It was not my pain but Ann's. She was crying, frightened. Because I was hurt. She was afraid for me. I felt her anguish. She was suffering terribly. I tried to will away the shadows but I couldn't. Tried in vain to speak her name. Don't cry, I thought. I'll be all right. Don't be afraid. I love you, Ann. Where are you?
~ Richard Matheson
To be half of one can only be a torment when the other half is gone.
~ Richard Matheson
A solider must leave someone behind,' she said. 'What men do best is walk away from women. Wars are handy for that.
~ Richard Peck
Love is the feedback cycle of longing, belonging, loss.
~ Richard Powers
When it can't go on, that's when this will end. Then they'll never see each other again, except for always.
~ Richard Powers
They used to be everywhere, Dad. Before we got to them. We took over everything! We deserve to be alone.
~ Richard Powers
Globalisation creates a world where causes are remote form effects, and the connections between them are often hidden or obscure.
~ Richard R. Wilk
Seaborg's team developed two separation processes to take advantage of the different chemistries of plutonium's several different valence states.
~ Richard Rhodes
If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking and caring about that fact.
~ Richard Rodriguez
By the age of seven, almost all of us have separated our body and our soul from our mind, and we give all of our credence to our mind, disconnected from our bodies, disconnected from our souls, which abide and grow more in silence. Descartes
~ Richard Rohr
Just as the Spirit always makes one out of two, so the evil one invariably makes two out of one!
~ Richard Rohr
It takes a huge push, much self-doubt, and some degree of separation for people to find their own soul and their own destiny apart from what Mom and Dad always wanted them to be and do.
~ Richard Rohr
n the second day, God separated heaven from earth (Genesis 1:6-8). Genesis does not say that the second day was good, because it is not good to separate heaven from earth. A deep religious experience will reveal that there is only one world, one reality, and it is all supernatural.
~ Richard Rohr
Slow, tick decides. Thinks happen slow. she isn't quite sure why this understanding of the world's movement should be important, but she thinks it is. ...Take her parents- At the time, their separation had seemed a bolt from the blue, though she now realizes it had been a slow process, rooted in dissatisfaction and need....Mybe
~ Richard Russo
Nor do I want the woman that I'm married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doing so moves me in a way that our growing old together and contentedly slipping, in affectionate tandem, toward the grave does not.
~ Richard Russo
So he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. And toward himself he was even more exacting.
~ Richard Wright
Linda cranked the greatest hits of heartbreak and we sat down on the carpeted floor to listen. I missed you.
~ Rick Moody
One time I took the swing shift just to get away from her for a few weeks, I just filled in for this guy who had a back injury, and I came home when no one was awake, and then I'd just take some sleeping pills and drink a few beers. Everyone had a good laugh.
~ Rick Moody