America Quote by Josephine Baker

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

— Josephine Baker

I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I…

— David Furnish

I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back…

— Dennis Banks

I needed to run away in order to come home.

— Patti Davis

One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back and see…

— Edward Snowden

I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories…

— Charles Bock

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

— Louise Bourgeois

When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge...…

— Lee Radziwill

I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out…

— George Carlin

I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any…

— Richard Ramirez

One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white…

— Josephine Baker

I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

— Ursula Andress