Quotes About Arrival

Is birth always a fall?

Arré Ahmed!" Amina Sinai yelled, "Janum, the baby! It's coming—bang on time!

it came anticlimactically, without any warning, wearing soft shoes…

El emigrante, por el contrario, puede prescindir totalmente del viaje; no es más que un mal necesario; lo que importa es llegar.

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

and understood that he had been awaited with impatience, to be greeted with enthusiasm.

annoncer sa visite, s'était élancé hors du péristyle

and left the table, to return a few moments later

The Le Havre, the ship carrying Tocqueville and Beaumont, arrived in the United States, in Newport, Rhode Island, on May 10, 1831. The following day they took a steamship to New York City.

Each morning when I arrive, the doves know me; their song rises and falls with pleasure and acceptance. It is always there, a river of sound.

Maria had been expecting a visitor, for the broom had fallen only an hour earlier, which always meant company was coming.

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

Books? Books are sacred. Books are to me what the host is to the priest, the oasis to the desert wanderer, the arrival of winged seraphim to a dying man.

ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were concatenated without abruption.

I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

They did not arrive alone but were attended by six cohorts, an assortment of dark-suited men so stern and judgmental of mien as to resemble the male ensemble from a musical version of The Crucible.

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.

To die is landing on some distant shore.