Quotes About Homecoming

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

Life is always on the way back home, after its wilful adventures.

no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]

That would be no less shrewd: for when you first come home from a strange place you are always something of a ghost. They were sorry when you went away, and they welcome you back with affection: but in the meanwhile they have adjusted their lives a little to your absence.

your homecoming will be my homecoming?- my selves go with you, only i remain; a shadow phantom effigy or seeming (an almost someone alway who's noone) a noone who,till their and your returning, spends the forever of his loneliness dreaming their eyes have opened to your morning feeling their stars have risen through your skies...

Your homecoming will be my homecoming

Help me to vengeance," she said. "Give the Greeks a bitter homecoming. Stir up your waters with wild whirlwinds when they sail. Let dead men choke the bays and line the shores and reefs.

I had not realized how far gone she was and how much she dreaded the homecoming, the ghost. We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us to the truth.

Coming back was part of the price

I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen, how's your plane? Did you land? Are you landing? Sweetie. Listen. We want to... ' The anxiety amps up exponentially as I get closer, and then I can't get out fast enough.

New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to L.A. for work, when I'd come back and get off the plane and be driving towards the landscape of the city, I'd be beside myself with joy. It doesn't matter how many times!

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

To see LeBron win a championship for the city of Cleveland, I'm from Cleveland. It's a big thing.

I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.

I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.

Growing up as a kid, in elementary and middle school, I was always getting in trouble. Always getting suspended. I got suspended for 90 days for fighting beginning my freshman year, so I missed Homecoming, and that's when I turned the page. I went on honor roll and had good grades after that. It was the changing point.

When are you coming back? When I'm done being gone.

I]t's not the world that needs saving, it's us. For us to be saved, as a lot of the very old myths say, we'll have to come home and be born again.