Quotes About Longing

When you give up something as big as playing for England there are going to be moments when you miss it.

I get little moments all the time, all I want to do is call my mom.

I just miss being around my mother. I'm her boy. I'm a momma's boy.

I always wanted to be a mommy.

I've always wanted to be a mommy.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.

I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut.

I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.

He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.

Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.

The more people see, the more they want to see.

When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

When I was younger, I always saw my friends with their mothers and fathers and felt a little jealous of them for having a father close by.

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.

There is no happy land. There is no end to hunger.

Was it in woman's nature to be content with all that a man could give her, and not forever want what was not his to give?

You can't go home again.