Quotes About Homecoming

It was not so much the [lack of] leisure, but also the nervous tension. One comes back to one's native land and sees that one has been abandoned. - Antheil

This is what matters to me: the story of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer from college to discover bewildering silence, facing his parents. This is my story.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Home is another word for the Spirit that we are, our True Self in God. The self-same moment that we find God in ourselves, we also find ourselves inside God, and this is the full homecoming, according to Teresa of Avila.

Hi," Piper said, as casually as she could. "We're back.

Grover cradeled his laurel sapling in his hands. Well . . . sure is good to be back together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look It's our floor

But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea. --Nereid

What was it like... to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home.

I stayed with the Navajo for several years. I had no idea how to get home! But one day another captured New Mexican arrived. He was a boy, just twelve or so, but he told me he knew how to get back to the nearest town. He was determined to run away, and when the time came, I—I ran with him.

They all looked as Da came in from the street, wearing his meeting suit and a flat miner's cap, perspiring from the walk up the hill. He took a step into the room, then stopped, staring. "Look who's here," Mam said

he might never enter this house again. Coming

I been away a long time.

I'd give something to see that. Mostly, I'd just to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time.

Mostly, I'd just like to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time.

RUTH: If you take the glass…I'll take you.

Horace Pendergast, originally from Cairo, Illinois.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

Someday someone should make a study of the silence that falls inside a car when you're returning home after having flaunted your well-being, partly to edify the company, partly to deceive yourself. It's a silence that tolerates no sound, not even the radio, for who in that mute war of opposition would dare to turn it on?

he needed a crocodile sample to get out. Damned if he cared if it was some mutant crocodile that ran around on its back feet fighting tigers, he was going home.

But you know, I don't think I will be so scared to die. I think it's like today: the end of a vacation when you are ready to go home.

But you know, I don't think I would be so scared to die. I think it's like today—the end of a vacation, when you are ready to go home.

the last few miles of the Atlantic Ocean back to England with all of the jewellery hidden in her knickers. Granny

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.