Long Absence Quotes

A man walked into the doctor's, The doctor said 'I haven't seen you in a long time' The man replied, 'I know I've been ill'.

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

Tuesday will be a tough night for me. It's like to return to the family who have not seen you for a long time. I spent a wonderful time there.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

How often does one get to have a 20-year hiatus of a character and then come back as an adult?

A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

I've been out for four months and when you have been out that long you start to miss the game and when you are out there you realise just how much you really do live it and enjoy it.

I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

For so many years, fans and friends have been wanting me to succeed and be back on TV every week, which hasn't happened since 'Full House.' I feel like I came through for them.

I don't like being away from home for a long period of time.

I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.

What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.

To spend 17 months on the sidelines is tough for anyone, and it's hard to see everyone go out training and then to go and watch games at the Emirates Stadium.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back.

Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.

I been away a long time.

Six years is a long time. To leave the fans with their hands in the air and to come back six years later, and the people still have their hands in the air, that's nothing but God. I'm standing in a position that's so humbling.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.

You can't imagine what it's like playing to people who have been loyal to you for 25 years and haven't seen you for 15.