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Quotes About Returning

Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.
~ Maureen Johnson
Ch'he. Devoid of intelligence, deficiency of wit, silly, idiotic. Also used for borrowing and returning books.
~ Barry Hughart
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
~ John Milton
I listen as I eat the street for supper, listen to the pain songs of Mexico. Flashes of returning come with the birds.
~ Joseph Ceravolo
Baltimore always seems like the kind of city you either leaving or just returning to. Ain't no kinda place to hang your hat. Even as a kid I dreamed of getting out.
~ Esi Edugyan
I love Baltimore. It is a city with a giant heart and has remained one of my favorite places to keep returning to on tour. It is unique and beautiful, and you can't mistake it for anywhere else in the world - Baltimore is one hundred percent Baltimore.
~ Kevin Morby
As we face an epidemic of veteran suicides, we must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.
~ Ron DeSantis
We must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.
~ Ron DeSantis
I was pretty certain I'd stay in TV rather than returning to the feature world because the material just seems so much better in TV, especially in drama, but then 'Crossface' came my way. A heartbreaking, true story about the dark side of wrestling... I couldn't say no to that.
~ Lexi Alexander
of all the perversions, the strangest was celibacy, the desire to cancel all desire, to hate it. Not that you could abolish it once and for all. Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning—it was ultimately indigestible.
~ Hanif Kureishi
It was nearly a week before we returned. We found her waiting, and very hungry. She was full of affection; we had deceived her so often, broken faith with her, done so much to destroy her trust in us, yet she remained loyal.
~ Joy Adamson
But that was just part of it. Some force was sucking him into this place. He knew he'd be returning here in a professional capacity. And that worried him.
~ Faye Kellerman
Perhaps once we might be able to sneak a death past him. Immortal, yes, but not indestructible. I saw that when AM withdrew from my mind, and allowed me the exquisite ugliness of returning to consciousness with the feeling of that burning neon pillar still rammed deep into the soft gray brain matter. He withdrew, murmuring to hell with you. And added, brightly, but then you're there, aren't you.
~ Harlan Ellison
Mr. Fred shook hands with her, said he was glad to see her, drew out a wet Coke from the machine, wiped it on his apron, and gave it to her. This is one good thing about life that never changes, she thought. As long as he lived, as long as she returned, Mr. Fred would be here with his...simple welcome. What was that? Alice? Brer Rabbit? It was Mole. Mole, when he returned from some long journey, desperately tired, had found the familiar waiting for him with its simple welcome.
~ Harper Lee
Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider's web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.
~ E. B. White
sidewalls and a military cut. Long hair provided cover. Bosch had done it himself twice during his time in-country, returning to L.A. to spend five days
~ Michael Connelly
The const specifiers on the functions returning the real and imaginary parts indicate that these functions do not modify the object for which they are called.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Anger has a way of returning.
~ Junot Diaz
I'm delighted to be returning to my California roots and joining Google.
~ Ruth Porat
Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that's the case, we should get busy returning them.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
If there's anything I have learned since returning to Congress, it's that talk is still cheap, progress is still slow, and our liberties continue to erode every day.
~ Matt Salmon
The day was lit with the beauty of the land forsaken, the night by the horror of returning to it. The day would show her the paradise she had lost; the night, the hell she had fled.
~ Milan Kundera
The old magic is returning, the powers of notes and intervals falling easily beneath her fingers.
~ Gael Baudino
This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder." "I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him." "I meant it the other way." "Oh.
~ Gary Paulsen