Quotes About Homecoming

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

We all lose friends.. we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home, when you leave the light on.

Fall is my favorite my time of the year. I love it. I'll try and make it back to Vancouver a bunch. I love going back home for that. Everything turns orange. You start to get out of summer, start making your way into the winter, everyone is wearing jackets. Vancouver lights up in the fall, so I definitely go back there for a bit.

"When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I'm home."

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

I had begun my time of waiting. I was living my life, and yet I seemed somehow to be outside of it, as if only when the war was over and Virgil came home would I be able to come back into my life and live again inside it.

One of the best days of the year, for me, was Decoration Day, when people would come from near and far with flowers to decorate the graves. Besides being beautiful and fragrant with all the roses and peonies and boughs of mock orange, it was a kind of grace and benediction, and a kind of homecoming. I liked to make a show of being busy in the graveyard so I could watch and listen.

It didn't feel like the last night of anything anymore, just that the world went on and would follow us home

You'll get back to where you came from.

The return to anywhere you last visited as a child is difficult, especially when it's a door. Your heart beats harder when you knock.

And that is how it was, the first time I touched the soil of England as a free woman, it was not with the soles of my boots but with the seat of my trousers.

She says she can't believe she raised a child who traveled all over the world but has been content ever since to let the world come to her.

You will come back to us?' 'Yes, I will come back. I belong to Ingo now.

On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.

The sedatives had done their work and she'd gone away and now she was coming home again. Exactly as if she'd been put in an envelope and posted abroad, then returned to sender

You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.

There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.

And where do all these highways go, now that we are free? Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me?

And it's nighttime," said Jenny. She sighed. "I'm going home.

When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

Here I am. Not leaving any more. Home.

People say that when you return to the place where you grew up, it always seems smaller than you remember. ...but I don't know if it was because I had built it up in my memories or I had gotten bigger. Maybe both.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.