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Quotes About Homecoming

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.
~ Li Bai
... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.
~ Paul Theroux
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
~ Aeschylus
I'm glad my first date is with you, Nate," she said as we started out of the house. "In a lot of ways, it feels like coming home." "I was thinking the same thing.
~ Terri Blackstock
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
~ Terry Pratchett
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
~ Terry Pratchett
A little longer, and we shall be in our true country, and our childhood's joys—those Sunday evenings, those outpourings of the heart—will be given back to us for ever!
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again
~ Thomas C. Foster
Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.
~ Don Rickles
In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.
~ Lisa Cholodenko
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
~ Rumi
To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.
~ Hasan M. Elahi
Whenever I go back home to Nigeria now, I always bring a bag full of Manchester City shirts for the kids.
~ Kelechi Iheanacho
My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.
~ Sanford I. Weill
He's dead." "His deliverance has come," said someone else. "The two friends have parted and returned to their homes," a third person whispered, "the flesh to the soil and the soul to God.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
The other two of her three kids stood on the covered front porch, tails wagging, feet dancing. One of the best things about dogs, to Fiona's mind, was their absolute joy in welcoming you home, whether you'd been gone for five minutes or five days. There lay unconditional and boundless love.
~ Nora Roberts
One of the best things about dogs, to Fiona's mind, was their absolute joy in welcoming you home, whether you'd been gone for five minutes or five days. There lay unconditional and boundless love.
~ Nora Roberts
stop by. So . . . welcome back, Eli." She walked
~ Nora Roberts
May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door.
~ Nora Roberts
We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see what it's going to show us when we get home.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If the prodigal son had never left home, the fattened calf would still be alive.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We look forward to getting you back.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Han grins and laughs and tries not to get crushed. "C'mon, Chewie. Set new coordinates. It's time to get you home.
~ Chuck Wendig
For it is time to return home. It is time to return democracy to the galaxy.
~ Chuck Wendig