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Quotes About Homecoming

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.
~ Katharine Tynan
I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.
~ Amanda Marshall
Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.
~ David Ginola
4. You've had enough of the big city and decide to return home. Waiting for a bus, you pick up a discarded copy of Larva and, because you have a long bus-ride ahead of you, begin reading. You quickly discover it is not a conventional novel. Do you: (a) discard it and stare out the window all the way back home? (b)
~ Steven Moore
Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home
~ Steven Spielberg
I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.
~ Stewart O'Nan
It is time now, Lily Murkaster, for you to come home.
~ Storm Constantine
It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.
~ Kevin Powers
When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.
~ Pablo Sandoval
I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
~ Danica Patrick
He'd always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being involved with him meant moving back here. Being surrounded by bad memories.
~ Leah Braemel, Slow Ride Home
Love is when you have not been home for three months and call up home and your daughter picks up the phone and says "Papa, I love you!
~ Avijeet Das
With you, it's different. It's like a coming home.
~ Nikki Rowe
He gazed into eyes the color of a summer morning sky and sighed. It felt as if his soul had just come home.
~ Grace Willows, Into My Heart
To receive children's love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available.
~ Dennis Prager
A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.
~ Katie Cotugno, How to Love
The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.
~ Yrsa Daley-Ward
Svitalo je, kada je Filip stigao na kaptolski kolodvor. Dvadeset i tri godine nije ga zapravo bilo u ovom zakutku, a znao je još uvijek sve kako dolazi: i truli slinavi krovovi i jaka buka fratarskog tornja i siva, vjetrom isprana jednokatnica na dnu mra?nog drvoreda.
~ Miroslav Krleža
By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
~ Mitch Albom
This is my heaven," Cleo said. "Watching people come home?" Annie asked. "Feeling the joy when they do. Souls reuniting. It's something divine." "But it happens every day." Cleo tilted her head. "Don't divine things happen every day?
~ Mitch Albom
Look and see, for everyone is coming home. Your sons are coming from distant lands; your little daughters will be carried on the hip. Your eyes will shine and your hearts will thrill with joy.
~ Mitch Albom
Daddy Ben and Old Rit were overjoyed to see her.
~ Monica Kulling
Sorrow fought with joy in his mind. He was going home, but he had lost Thorgil and Rune forever.
~ Nancy Farmer
My girl, my brave girl had done this. She had gone and come back bloody and she had brought us back the spring. And she had come back, she had come back, which was worth all the spring and more for me.
~ Naomi Novik