Rachel Hurd-Wood Quotes

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

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

The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that's not easy. There are times when you say, 'Wow, what a fight, what a battle.'

I've been in England for a while, but it's true that at times you miss home, your family, your friends.

I have been away from home since I was 17.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

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

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.

… splendid isolation

It was a big step for me to take, going away from my family to go and play in a different culture, and I understand why people don't do it.

The one thing that was nice about being an only child is that my friends' parents would always ask me whether I would want any other brothers and sisters? My mom wasn't able to have any more children, and they didn't know that, but I would always say that I can have friends over, and whenever I get sick of them, I can just send them home.

I knew I needed to move away when I was 15, but when I got to Norwich, I spent nights crying myself to sleep with homesickness. For any young kid moving away from home, that is the biggest thing you have to deal with.

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 think that a lot of people I'm close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home... You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me.