Away Quote by John Burnside Download Open image “For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.” — John Burnside ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Away New Place Possessions Year
The last time I told myself I no longer had anything to live for, I lost everything that I had. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had gone from being married with a kid, two cars, garage, nice house in a nice neighborhood to all of it gone. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
My wife and I sold our house New York and moved to Australia for a year; then we came back and spent almost three… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage. — Becky G Copy Share Image
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away.… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it. — Thomas Ravenscroft Copy Share Image
What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did. — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem,… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries me forward… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion,… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
“Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
I already know Cover 3, Cover 2, everything else. But it's a lot of times, defenses try to take you away and they do… — Julio Jones Copy Share Image
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
