Janet Mock Quotes

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

Everybody needs a safe place, and it should be their home.

School was my sanctuary.

Africa is the one place on earth where Prince Harry can be truly himself. He describes Botswana as his 'second home,' but this magical country is even more than that - it is his haven, his safe harbour.

My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.

I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.

The football field, I'd definitely say that's my safe place.

My happy place is my bedroom. I love it.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been.

Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

Music is like my security blanket.

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

Music should be your escape.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Home is your sanctuary.

Libraries have been sanctuaries, a place I can go to discover.

I am not patriotic or nationalistic, but the French language is like a country where I take refuge when I have nowhere else to go. It consoles me for everything. For me, the language no longer belongs to the colonialists.