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Quotes About Arrival

THE END OF civilization as we knew it arrived not with a whimper, but with a massive storm. When
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Wings are needed in order to fly, but we don't need to fly anywhere. We have arrived at the terminus. We have found what we wanted.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
At the sight of Day, her whole face lit up. "Mikhail! You came! Barbara said you would, but that we might have to wait for hell to freeze over first. Did it?
~ Deborah Blake
The very next year the Statue of Liberty lowered her torch: in 1921 Congress imposed quotas, and in 1924—the year after my mother arrived—quotas were set so low that the doors effectively slammed shut.
~ Deborah Tannen
Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Sabrina Kincaid heard the jingle of the café's glass door opening and glanced at the clock above the workstation: 7:12 on the dot.
~ Denise Hunter
You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.
~ Denise Levertov
People!" she screamed. "There are people here! New people!
~ Derek Landy
Perhaps he had even seen it coming from the top of the lighthouse, the Event arriving like a kind of wave. And what had manifested? What do I believe manifested? Think of it as a thorn
~ Jeff Vandermeer
On my arrival at Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, I found that the Convention of the State had made provision for a State army, and had appointed me to the command, with the rank of major-general.
~ Jefferson Davis
The president and first lady arrived a few minutes later, and Trump immediately walked up to Hutson, ogled her up and down, and said to Giuliani, "Great job, Rudy!" (Melania Trump, disgusted by her husband's leering, walked off and refused to pose for photographs.)
~ Jeffrey Toobin
As dawn broke over the mountains on the horizon, Iduna rode into the sleepy village. She spotted the sign for Tomally's Baked Goods almost immediately. It was just as her friend had described in her letters. The bakery was attached to a modest house that was clean and bright, with a window box filled with golden crocus. They were Anna's favorite flower. It had to be a sign.
~ Jen Calonita
It's hard to know, ever, where a story beings. We touch down in a world fully inhabited by others, a drama already in progress. By the time we make our entrance - incontinent and screaming, like dirty bombs detonating - the climax is a distant memory. Our arrival is not the beginning; it is a consequence.
~ Jennifer Haigh
Did you follow me here?" I asked. Lake shrugged. "The word follow seems to suggest you got here first.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The two of us rode in companionable silence until the car pulled into Ivy's drive. Bodie cut the engine, and I reached for the door handle.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Dove tu sei, quella è casa.
~ Emily Dickinson
everyone goes home in the end.
~ Emma Donoghue
I'll be in Heaven getting your room ready.
~ Emma Donoghue
out of the trap. They ran on to the platform just as the train pulled up. Not many people got out. A woman clambered out with a basket.
~ Enid Blyton
Will Maria be picking us up? Where do you think Maria is right now? How old do you think Maria is?
~ Eoin Colfer
It is not your concern by what means something returns to the Source from which it came.
~ Epictetus
I looked at him, at the debonair man in the suit of all suits . . . . I wasn't in clothes on the level of his, but I wanted the hotel staff to regard me with respect. I grabbed my bag, hoping he wouldn't say anything about me carrying so much, but. I wanted it to look like I was arriving as a guest, not as rented coochie.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Gelmek bir yolun sonuna varmak de?il, insan her menzilde bir yere var?r.
~ Amin Maalouf