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Quotes About Runaway

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.
~ Mary Gaitskill
I ran away from home when I was a senior in high school, and it came out of all the conflicts that happen between parents and their children who can't communicate.
~ John Denver
At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.
~ Rose McGowan
Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
~ Anne Tyler
Aversion is the most evident reason for the runaway.
~ Ashima
The runaway accumulation of wealth for the rich and the runaway loss of wealth for others mean for most people a runaway loss of experiences of personal value—the loss of a meaningful life.
~ George Lakoff
I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.
~ Max Schneider
I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
~ Vincent Cassel
Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.
~ Tina Fey
As a Main Street businessman, I believe we need to reduce runaway federal spending and address our national debt and the MAP Act provides Congress with the tools to accomplish this goal.
~ Mike Braun
You're naught but a human man. You couldn't possibly understand." He lifted a brow, still smiling. "Liar." "Cutpurse." "Runaway." "Swindler! "Coward," he said softly, and she jerked back. "Bastard!" "Undoubtedly true." He made a short bow.
~ Shana Abé
I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
~ Tom Petty
I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.
~ Gordon Brown
I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off before. Ginny eyed the sheriff severely. Not fourteen-year-old girls who had grandmas like Evelyn Larkin.
~ Michael McDowell
Lord Mansfield's famous decision in the 1772 Somersett case is generally considered to have essentially ended chattel slavery in England and Wales, although emancipation came gradually enough that advertisements for "runaway slaves" were still occasionally seen into the late 1780s. The decision did not apply to Scotland, where colliers and salters were still held in conditions of slavery until 1799.
~ C.S. Harris
Malley told the shrink that she'd run away because Justin
~ Carl Hiaasen
Your audience are whores, oxygen farmers, two dozen pirate bands, and fifty runaway mathematicians. They would all love to see dancing and fighting.
~ Bruce Sterling
I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.
~ Nikki Sixx
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
~ Joni Mitchell
reel. Everything about him seems drab—?his cotton work shirt, his complexion, his once-glistening eyes. He needs a haircut. Nathan has become his pillar of support. He checks on Bruce daily, invites him to dinner at least once a week. The rumors were rampant. Who had Samantha run away with? Every neighbor had a theory
~ C.J. Box
I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'
~ Robin Leach
When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.
~ Kevin Wilson