House Quote by Rickie Lee Jones

My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I…

— Bo Derek

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

— John Prendergast

I've been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

— Lando Norris

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

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life…

— Sarah Dessen

I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.

— Nico

There were times I felt like leaving the stadium and hitchhiking home.

— John Mckay

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

— Tom Brokaw

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my…

— Paul Theroux