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Quotes About Homecoming

Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.
~ Jessica Day George
Had we returned home in 1916, out of the suffering and the strength of our experience we might have unleashed a storm. Now if we go back we will be weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope. We will not be able to find our way any more. ==========
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Nikada se ne bi trebalo oti?i ili se nikada ne bi smelo vratiti.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
in Gnosticism, the way of salvation lies in heightening consciousness and returning to the transcendent spirit, with loss of the unconscious side; whereas uroboric salvation through the Great Mother demands the abandonment of the conscious principle and a homecoming to the unconscious.
~ Erich Neumann
When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.
~ Erma Bombeck
When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Think about something cheerful, old man, he said. Every minute now you are closer to home.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She went out a girl, she returned home a woman.
~ Andrew Morton
Off in the distance, the clouds seemed to part to make way for a commercial jet. People on board were getting excited. They were probably coming home. What feeling could match that? I thought.
~ Andrew Neiderman
The end of exile is the end of being.
~ Angela Carter
A Magnificent Banquet, being A Thanksgiving for the Safe Return Of our Beloved Daughter, Princess Esmeralda. Bring your own plates.
~ Angie Sage
My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden all day, reading, or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that the person I love will come home to me in the evening. Every evening.
~ Anita Brookner
As always after a trip home, he wondered why he found it so difficult to get on with his father. There were never arguments, no real antagonism, but he always left feeling an edgy mixture of guilt and inadequacy.
~ Ann Cleeves
I have no regrets whatsoever about coming back to City.
~ Shaun Wright-Phillips
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
~ John F. Kennedy
I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones. My mother was in one and my grandmother was in the other. They'd both passed away while I was in prison.
~ Angela Stanton-King
It is, to me, a goal of mine to come back to Hawaii and to play in the Pro Bowl.
~ Marcus Mariota
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
~ Vidal Sassoon
I think there are definitely positives when you go back to the familiar, because it's something you don't have to think about when you know the place. But sometimes on the other hand, it can be quite unchallenging.
~ Ben Howard
Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'
~ Frank Deford
When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.
~ Susan Orlean
Yash planned a surprise for me when I returned home from shoot recently in the evening. He took me to a temple where he had invited all the fans to see me. All of them came rushing with so many gifts for me. However, I could not accept expensive gifts; but I was on cloud nine to see people bringing so many nice things for me.
~ Amrapali Gupta
He told me he felt guilty to have lived, to have made it home when so many did not.
~ Robert Dugoni
Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state
~ Robert E. Lee