Vanessa Morgan Quotes

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

I don't want families to be separated by very, very long distances.

I've been away from my family even when I was in France.

It's difficult when your family are not physically around you.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

I don't like being away from home.

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 can't stand another night in a hotel. Just being away. You miss the kids.

I don't like being away from my family, I genuinely don't.

Since I was 15, I have not spent a Christmas or a New Year with my family.

When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.

I have an incredibly supportive family... and I don't have much of a social life.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."