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Quotes About Homecoming

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
~ Wally Lamb
At long last, on October 5, Tronstad returned to Norway, dropping by parachute into the Vidda. His "long exile" was over.
~ Neal Bascomb
I cannot imagine that I will ever come home for a homecoming game after I leave here, but it was fun to pretend that I was.
~ Chbosky, Stephen
I'm happy to have returned to Monaco.
~ Radamel Falcao
Yes, I worked in Montreal. I worked there for 20 years... I came back to Beauce in 2006 to represent the Beaucerons.
~ Maxime Bernier
The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.
~ Aisha Tyler
He saw now that you can't go home again--not ever. There was no road back.
~ Thomas Wolfe
he felt no more than a boy again-but a very well-versed boy who couldn't help thinking of the scene described by these old words, surely the most beautiful words written or said: His father, when he saw him coming, ran to meet him.
~ Tobias Wolff
She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her roommates and her cute new boyfriend, the classes and the parties and the giggly talks before bed, understanding for the first time that that was her real life now, that this , despite everything she'd ever loved about it, was finished for good.
~ Tom Perrotta
They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.
~ Tom Perrotta
People born in New Orleans always go back
~ Tom Piazza
Could I return, I will not say to revel, but breath this sky, under which I was born: to rejoice with sea views and gardens; to consol me with your kindness; to drink this wine or this water, that might reduce my illness…
~ Torquato Tasso
I'll come," she said softly. "I will. It would be good to be among family again.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
She reached up to place her fingertips to his lips as she stared up at him with a warm, tender expression. "I wish you had come home to me so that I could have helped you." He pulled the cloth away from her face and stared at her for a hard second. "Had I known what was waiting for me, my lady, I would have." -Christian and Adara
~ Kinley MacGregor
Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.
~ Kiran Desai
I was hit by a car, and according to the Hallmark Channel, I'm supposed to come home.
~ Kristan Higgins
I knew that even if I went back to them, after many years of loneliness in another land, I would not be able to pick up where I had left off.
~ Carlos Bulosan
I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.
~ Carmelo Anthony
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore
Seven hundred feet above, the sentries heard and raised their warhorns to their lips. The sound rang out, echoing off the Wall and out across the world. Ahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. One long blast. For a thousand years or more, that sound had meant rangers coming home. Today it meant something else. Today it called the free folk to their new homes.
~ George R.R. Martin
Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán de García had given birth to three more children since that time and this was her first return to Aracataca since her husband, Gabriel Eligio García, took her away to live in Barranquilla, leaving little "Gabito" in the care of his maternal grandparents,
~ Gerald Martin
A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.
~ Anonymous
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
~ Arthur Miller
Home they brought her warrior dead.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson