Beach Quote by Bo Derek

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

— John Prendergast

I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick…

— John Waters

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

— Michael Dirda

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

— Tom Brokaw

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my…

— Cheryl Strayed

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

— Diana Ross

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he…

— Marco Rubio

Everything was an escape for me when I was younger. I had a tumultuous home life thanks to the unsavoury characters my mom would…

— Rosa Salazar

I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd…

— John Waters

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found…

— John Lee Hooker

At 18, I took a Greyhound bus to New York City, and then I was in city after city, so I was just dying…

— Josh Holloway

When I was younger, my mom and I lived in a car because we didn't have anywhere to go.

— Kane Brown