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Quotes About Arrival

I feel happy to be here, and still a little sad to be here too. Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
he'd seen a glistening, caterwheel ground car stopping not far from the doorway.
~ Robert Sheckley
Having left Toronto on the morning train, they were in Charlottetown by mid-afternoon. Jane saw dad the moment she stepped off the train . . . grinning and saying, "Excuse me, but your face seems familiar. Are you by any chance . . ." but Jane had hurled herself at him. They had never been parted . . . she had never been away at all. The
~ L.M. Montgomery
For winter was coming.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sorrisi nel riconoscere la prima persona che entrava, e subito ebbi la sensazione che tutto sarebbe andato bene. Saremmo stati protetti. Era arrivato Edward.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
When they arrived at Parva Magna, everyone agreed that it was quite a good thing that the newly married couple had managed to find shelter in the storm, although there was some confusion as to why it had taken them a full three days to make their way fifteen miles.
~ Lauren Willig
arrived. She settled herself on
~ Lauren Willig
I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city--that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place until one has found oneself a bed.
~ Laurie Lee
September I arrived at Antioch College
~ Lawrence Block
Or we skip all that and just show him getting out a taxi in front of the Hotel Northwestern.
~ Lawrence Block
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
~ Neil Armstrong
The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.
~ Freeman Dyson
How cinematic of an entrance that was.
~ Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome.
~ Derek Walcott
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.
~ Luis Valdez
she called, 'Mother, come out, someone's here, he brought the rain.
~ Zsuzsa Bánk
The sending of the Holy Spirit depends on the Lord's departure.
~ Adrienne von Speyr
Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.
~ Akiko Busch
In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet.
~ Akiko Busch
Before Cook's arrival the native population of Hawai'i was more than a quarter of a million people; a hundred years later, it
~ Alan Brennert
but by the time Dr. Fennel arrived in a mad rush, Kenji was no longer breathing.
~ Alan Brennert
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome.
~ Derek Walcott
Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
My dear, my dearest dust; I come, I come.
~ Diane Zahler