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Quotes About Homecoming

Here's to the Clock! Whose hands, we pray heaven, When we come home at three, Have stopped at eleven!
~ Oliver Herford, "To the Clock"
Ja, es war gut, heimzukehren. Irrtümer, Gefahren, Versuchungen, Zeiten der Schwäche: sie blieben keinem erspart. Aber dann kehrte man heim in sein Haus, in sein Eigenstes, in die Heimat, in das, was man aus sich heraus geschaffen hatte, das zu einem Stück des eigenen Ichs geworden war, mochte es nun ein Haus sein oder eine Frau oder eine ganze Stadt.
~ Hans Fallada
As I live and breath. The master is returned from parts unknown." "Hi, Madame," Max said, planting a kiss on the woman's cheek.
~ Heather Graham
Robin Hood just called, he wants Sherwood Forest back.
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.
~ Layne Staley
An anonymous GI poet added: Please Mr. Truman, won't you send us home? We have captured Napoli and liberated Rome; We have licked the master race, Now there's lots of shipping space, So, won't you send us home? Let the boys at home see Rome.9
~ James T. Patterson
Mrs. Phillips was always glad to see her nieces; and the two eldest, from their recent absence, were particularly welcome, and she was eagerly expressing her surprise at their sudden return home, which
~ Jane Austen
I come home from work early one day, and I see a guy jogging down the street in his underwear. I ask him, "Why are you jogging in your underwear?" He says, "You came home from work early".
~ Rodney Dangerfield
All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor
I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home.
~ Jessica Biel
I don't have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It's guaranteed to cure a cold.
~ John Legend
Monmouth was important to me because that was the first stepping stone. I am very grateful to the Monmouth program for taking a chance on a four-year lacrosse player who had a year of eligibility left. It was an awesome experience to go back there and play football again, especially since it was close to home.
~ Chris Hogan
I'll come in from a long flight and go straight to the grocery store. I love cooking for my man.
~ Chrissy Teigen
I'd been with Saints for 13 years, so it was always going to be a bit strange going back for the first time.
~ John McGinn
Home to the two boys and wife he'd run away from seven years before. One
~ Tim Lebbon
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
~ Timothy Ferriss
I went away to college, and when I came back and was coaching at Pitt, if they would've offered me a 25-year contract to be the assistant coach, I would've taken it so fast. It was ideal. I was coaching one neighborhood over from where I grew up.
~ Mike McCarthy
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
~ Sam Ewing
BBC One's 'Noughts and Crosses' feels like catching up with your oldest mates from home.
~ Vick Hope
I actually got to go back to where I was born and perform there. I just brought my mom up onstage and was like, 'Look, here we are.'
~ apl.de.ap
A hoarse shout from within and a small china ornament whizzing past my head informed me that my old friend was at home.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It's well known that he who returns never left
~ Pablo Neruda
Lily was nearly asleep when a large shadow filled the space between the fire's light and her bedroll. She gasped and sat up before she recognized Cade's silhouette in the darkness. What are you doing here? Are we going home? After I sleep with my wife. And with that extraordinary statement, Cade sat down, put his arms around Lily, and pulled her to the ground as his mouth found and ravished hers.
~ Patricia Rice