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Quotes About Homecoming

I never thought I would be able to play in Seoul, the city where my mother was raised and I was born, and I was able to perform for my aunt.
~ Michelle Zauner
A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.
~ Yvonne Strahovski
I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.
~ Ed Koch
I adore the fact that when I'm driving home from work, as soon as I hit my neighbourhood, I see people I know.
~ Kelly Macdonald
And that is something I've heard from many people who immigrate is that when they go back to their home countries, in a way, they think they're going to be embraced and completely feel like they've come home. This disconcerting thing is when you go back there and you feel more foreign than you ever have.
~ Lulu Wang
House. The man who had left California in 1854, penniless and under a cloud, to return to his wife in St. Louis, arrived in San Francisco on a September day in 1879 to such tumult and shouts as the youthful city had never known. This time Julia stood by his side, their two-year Odyssey ended,
~ Unknown
Reader, it is time for your tempest-tossed vessel to come to port. What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library? Certainly there is one in the city from which you set out and to which you have returned after circling the world from book to book.
~ Italo Calvino
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
~ J. C. Watts
We try to escape as far away only to discover we've been returning all along
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
When we arrived we were met by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, both producers of the film. Lorri and I hadn't seen them in over a month and had missed them a great deal. As soon as I heard those New Zealand accents, the feel of "home" washed over me again. They have been with me every step of the way since my release, helping me. Thinking of them now makes my heart feel like it's about to burst with love.
~ Unknown
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
~ Dan Lipinski
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
I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.
~ Duane G. Carey
It's always strange going back to Villa Park for me.
~ Gary Cahill
There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.
~ Jeremy Irvine
I moved back home after graduating from Virginia Tech. And that's when reality hit. I knew I had to do something. I guess it doesn't click when you're that young. I was 19 and had finished college. I got home and had to figure out what I was going to do.
~ Adam Page
Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion. Of forgiveness. Of coming home.
~ Lori Wilde
Ainsley cleared his throat. "Allow me to apologize for my brother. He's not been himself since he returned home." "With all due respect, Your Grace, I suspect he's being exactly himself. He's just simply no longer the person you knew before he left.
~ Lorraine Heath
Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk. A Course in Miracles tells us, "Love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and thankful mind …These are the true conditions for your homecoming.
~ Louise L. Hay
What will Dad say?" he whispered. His mother could not possibly have heard him at such a distance, but she seemed to understand his question. "I imagine," she said, stepping into a neat square of the brilliant afternoon, "he'll say, 'Hello, Max.
~ Jodi Picoult
Where there had only been fearful emptiness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there is now unfolding a wealth of vitality. This is not a homecoming since this home had never before existed. It is the discovery of home. —ALICE MILLER
~ John Bradshaw
We moved back to the Raffles', then back to Devon (to Horrabridge, where I saw a spider so big I could hear its footsteps).
~ John Cleese
When you get to college and move out of your house you really start to appreciate time with family and friends back home.
~ Unknown
My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.
~ Yunus Emre