Quotes About Homecoming

The prodigal son returned home to his father's house not for any noble motive but because he was hungry and down on his luck. Nevertheless, his father welcomed him home with open arms, without reproach. This is the image of God that Jesus reveals to us and we are invited to believe.

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere – in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion and in ourselves. No-one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the Beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. Some of our most wonderful memories are of beautiful places where we felt immediately at home. We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of our soul.

Charlie's Homecoming

It's a thing to see when a boy comes home.

Come along, said Joad. Pa'll be glad to see you. He always said you got too long a pecker for a preacher. He picked up his coat roll and tightened it snugly about his shoes and turtle.

It's a thing to see when a boy comes home. It's a thing to see.

Tom Wolfe was right," he reflected. "You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

Perhaps the final proof that the war was really over came at six o'clock on the first evening, with the pipe - 'children to supper'.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.

The friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect- the ones who stuck by you shoulder to shoulder, in a time when nothing was certain, all life lay ahead, and every road led home.

If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to.

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

My Date was waiting for me at the kitchen door, ears perked, tail wagging and bits of wicker clinging to his nose and mouth" --Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

We sit around waiting for them to come home, hoping every day that they are okay and that they know how much we love them... our heroes.

We live in a world that is alive and generous and in need of care. Strangely, paradoxically, it is in serving and singing and telling our stories to one another that we discover the homecoming we've been longing for has been here, among and within us, along.

If people won't be shooting at me what will I be doing?" Maybe I could be her bodyguard. "I think you can learn to do anything you want." She smiled. "We'll talk about that when we get you home.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Sometimes I would wake up and see you laying beside me. Sometimes I would say I love you when I heard your voice. Sometimes I would even make you breakfast for you because I thought you were coming home. And one day you will be here. Come home. I miss you.