My father fled from the North, hating communism.

My father's father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States. So was my stepmother,…

— Antony Blinken

My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and…

— Moon Jae-in

I don't know the history of hating communism in America. I've always been interested in it, and I've thought about studying it in the…

— Adam Conover

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

— Ted Cruz

“Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

— Mervyn Peake

“As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is…

— Ilhan Omar

“A kid ran into the darkness. His clothing was on fire; the flames streamed behind him as he fled screaming.”

— Michael Grant

“Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.”

— Brian Francis Slattery

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw…

— Philip Yancey

“The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He ran toward the light. When he passed the corpse of his dead friend, he began to weep again. He picked up his sword.…

— M. John Harrison

I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

— Alfonsina Storni

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the…

— Carlo Collodi