Quotes About Homecoming
If I'd been right enough in the head to track time, I could tell you the date I returned home to find Finbarr, sitting on the curb in front of our building, a satchel at his feet. It was the only time in my life where my heart didn't leap at the sight of him. There was nothing I could do but break his heart once by telling him about Genevieve, and twice by sending him away.
~ Unknown
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return. And they were relieved when they got back, with a sense of having fulfilled an obligation.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.
~ Oliver Stone
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You're so good to me." She wrapped her arms around him. "Sliding off the highway was the best thing that's ever happened to me." "You didn't know it, angel, but you were coming home.
~ Pamela Clare
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Sliding off the highway was the best thing that's ever happened to me." "You didn't know it, angel, but you were coming home.
~ Pamela Clare
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It was our own that were able to bring us home. It was those who were not strong that could give us strength. The mud that covered our bodies and clothes now clung to them as well, but it was the same mud that pulled at our feet, the mud of our own standing place
~ Unknown
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Once you decide what your heart gesture will be, practice it routinely during the four crucial times of each day: 1. when you wake up, 2. before you leave home, 3. when you come back home, and 4. before you go to sleep.
~ Unknown
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You're Joe Spain's beautiful daughter. That's why you came back home- to finally discover every part of that truth.
~ Unknown
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Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.
~ Patrick O'Brian
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Just come back, I was thinking. You've been gone long enough. Just come back. I will stop traveling; I will wash your clothes.
~ Patti Smith
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arriving from Scotland, she had cried herself
~ Unknown
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Homecoming Snowfall, denser and denser, dove-coloured as yesterday, snowfall, as if even now you were sleeping. White, stacked into distance. Above it, endless, the sleigh track of the lost. Below, hidden, presses up what so hurts the eyes, hill upon hill, invisible. On each, fetched home into its today, an I slipped away into dumbness: wooden, a post. There: a feeling, blown across by the ice wind attaching its dove- its snow- coloured cloth as a flag.
~ Paul Celan
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I've a reason to believe We all will be received In Graceland
~ Paul Simon
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All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.
~ Paul Theroux
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When I pulled up in D's wagon, I nearly always got a chaste kiss on the cheek. We'd have a drink on the veranda and discuss what had happened on the farm while I was away, the servants milling around us, always happy to see me home. But as soon as night fell and we were alone, the mood turned chilly fast. Jock never tried to touch me sexually—that
~ Paula McLain
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Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)
~ Paullina Simons
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He told his e-butler to have the maidbots start a decent meal and open some wine to breathe. By the time he got home it should be ready.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
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So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.
~ Peter Jurasik
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and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
~ Genesis 31:18
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So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
~ Genesis 33:16
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He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
~ Exodus 18:6
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