Top 190 Fleeing Quotes & Sayings

Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

Can you really send back people to where they are fleeing from?

I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

A lot of people don't understand that refugees especially, are fleeing situations that are affecting their livelihood and their children's livelihood.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing religious persecution and to no longer turn a blind eye to the plight of our Christian brothers abroad.

Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

The United States was built on the idea that we could create a free country that would serve as a haven for those fleeing persecution.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

Cubans who arrive and can prove that they are refugees who are truly fleeing political persecution will continue to qualify as refugees. The only thing that I've asked for is to do away with automatic benefits granted to someone, basically, Cubans who come from Cuba, if it cannot be verified that they are refugees fleeing political persecution, so they will be treated the same way as any other immigrant who arrives in the United States, which is that legal immigrants in the United States don't have the right to any federal benefits for five years.

The most dramatic case is that of the Central Americans. Why are people fleeing Central America? It's because of the atrocities the U.S. committed there. Take Boston, where there's a fairly large Mayan population. These people are fleeing from the highlands of Guatemala, where there was virtual genocide in the early 1980s backed by Ronald Reagan. The region was devastated, and people are still fleeing to this day, yet they're sent back.

This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.

I think it's important to understand that ISIS's biggest enemy are ordinary Muslims. That's why they're fleeing.

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.

Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.

Our country is a nation of immigrants, who, for centuries, have come here, fleeing persecution, bringing their dreams, their fears, and their hopes for a better life.

The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

Social niceties are not in order for men who would turn away refugees fleeing for their lives based on their faith to have them suffer in camps.

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

The journey has been long, fleeing a war, living in a refugee camp, coming to Canada is what we were dreaming as a family to get here. Now that we're here I'm excited that I'm a Canadian citizen.

We are a compassionate nation, taking in the refugees and those, you know, fleeing, the huddled masses yearning to be free. This is something that's deeply ingrained in our hearts in the United States.

Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it.

Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe do not go through anything like the rigorous process experienced by those who are coming to the States, and the volume of Syrians fleeing to Europe is orders of magnitude larger than it is to the United States.

The greatest nation in the world should not have much to fear from a family, especially children, fleeing violence. More importantly, children fleeing violence ought to have nothing to fear from the greatest country in the world.

If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

The people who are fleeing Syria, they're the ones who need to run the country there long-term.

In one notorious episode in 2002, in the holy city of Mecca, the religious police prevented girls from fleeing a school that was on fire because they were not properly dressed.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

I have been a Republican since I came to this country, fleeing communism when I was eight years old and Ronald Reagan was president.

We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.

Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution.

Children, presenting at our border, who are fleeing violence, who are fleeing prosecution, who are fleeing terrible situations is not a crisis. We feel that it is our responsibility to humanely approach this circumstance, and make sure they are treated and put in conditions that are safe.

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.