Peter MacKay Quotes

An' this house just ain't no home, Anytime she goes away.

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

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

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

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

I have a mother back there in Illinois who is old and feeble. I haven't seen her this many a year and haven't been a good son to her, yet I love her better than anything in this life.

Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.

I have already spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning alone, missing my children, and crying because I have no family nearby.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

I'm really proud of 'Coming Home.' I wrote that about Eric, and I just feel like it's very relatable for anyone who has to be away from their loved ones, you know, for long periods of time - our military, people who are working. It's pretty special.

I miss my family all the time.

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

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

I miss my family every single day.

When my grandfather died, I was on tour, and I didn't go to the funeral. I never got to say goodbye, and this is one of the problems of being in a rock band is that you're away, and your loved ones die, and you can't even see them.

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.