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Quotes About Connection

Homecoming unites the past and the present.
~ Author Unknown
Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart.
~ Author Unknown
...the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
He did not belong to us, he belonged to the world.
~ Martin Luther King, Sr.
...The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven...
~ William Goldsmith Brown
Who fed me from her gentle breast, And hush'd me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother.
~ Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You're my mother, I would have no other!
~ Forest Houtenschil, c. 1979
But it is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
~ Author Unknown
Screen-Free Week is an annual invitation to play, explore, and rediscover the joys of life beyond ad-supported screens. During the first week of May, thousands of families, schools, and communities around the world will put down their entertainment screens for seven days of fun, connection, and discovery.
~ Fairplay, screenfree.org
Deny yourself the connection to the wild places that your soul craves and the fire inside you will slowly turn to ash.
~ Creek Stewart, 2017
Kids don't remember their best day of television.
~ Author Unknown
But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
~ John Muir, July 1877
It's so strange to think that before Facebook all this nonsense just stayed in people's heads.
~ Internet meme
To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body...
~ Thomas Fuller
A very strange and solemn feeling came over me as I stood there, with no sound but the rustle of the pines, no one near me, and the sun so glorious, as for me alone. It seemed as if I felt God as I never did before, and I prayed in my heart that I might keep that happy sense of nearness all my life.
~ Louisa May Alcott, 1845
If instead of a gem, or even of a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving, as the angels... must give.
~ George MacDonald
A hug is a great gift — one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.
~ Author Unknown
Friends are like sprinkles on the cupcake of life.
~ Author Unknown
A partner is someone who makes you more than you are, simply by being by your side.
~ Albert Kim
I've fallen in love many times — always with you.
~ Author Unknown
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
~ Stephen King, "The Body," 1982
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?
~ Author Unknown
Criminal Minds, Miasma: "My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call."
~ Pat Conroy