Quotes About Homecoming

I just want to say I've been lucky enough to travel all over the world and every time I come back to Manchester I'm addicted to this place.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

It was good to lie there in our bags watching the glow of our dying fire and the deeper glow of sunset beyond; but most of all it was good to feel the ground again and to know we were back in a country we loved.

Once again the centre of international storms. Neither Athens nor Rome aroused so many passions. When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it's not the first time, it's a homecoming. —ELIE WIESEL, open letter to BARACK OBAMA,

Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me

Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.

I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people.

It's good to have you back, David. We missed you while you were away.

He knows your name. And he can't wait to get you home.

It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light.

Happy the man who can long roaming reap, Like old Ulysses when he shaped his course Homeward at last toward the native source, Seasoned and stretched to plant his dreaming deep.

I want to go home." His first reaction was to shout, "Nay!" It took all his restraint not to shout the denial. A cold fist of dread clenched his throat and squeezed relentlessly. She wasn't happy. Even a fool could see that she was miserable.

So go ahead and make your way Back from the edge of yesterday No one knows what Can't be known 'Cause when you start You're all alone But take enough steps Take enough steps Take enough steps And someday Someday you'll be home ---Heather Wells, Untitled

Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me

I reread the Odyssey at that time, which I had first read in school and remembered as a story of a homecoming.But it is not a story of a homecoming. How could the Greeks who knew that one never enters the same river twice, believe in homecoming? Odysseus does not return home to stay, but to set off again. The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile.

Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless.

I'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

I was only 15 when I left Barcelona to do my own thing. Luckily, after some years, they have signed me again.

the man who really loves his country is not the one who refuses to attack it when he has been unjustly driven from it, but the man whose desire for it is so strong that he will shrink from nothing in his efforts to get back there again.