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Quotes About Arrival

But will she come in time? Oh yes just in time; whenever she comes is just in time; when we have despaired for the thousandth midnight of any such a one ever coming from anywhere, she will arrive, in a tearing hurry, breaking into or out of the last spheres of air, fire, water, earth as though throwing open the successive doors of a long corridor, down which she rushes, her hair streaming and her brow knit, her hand already beside her mouth to call into the ear of our souls Wake up.
~ John Crowley
Natural units tell us that in a well-defined sense the Universe is very old already, about 1060 Planck times old. Life on Earth didn't appear until after the Universe was 1059 Planck times old. We were a late arrival.
~ John D. Barrow
I do not feel like an alien in this universe. 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 Dyson24
~ John D. Barrow
Sound the trumpets; beat the drums…Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes.
~ John Dryden
As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.
~ Claire Messud
He tried to escape he could not Cut the binding cord of human love [...] Sweet venom His arrivals were swift And his departures sudden I couldn't understand how He lifted the shower door Right off its hinges [...] Love you he coughed and kissed me See you next week he was out The door like a thousand other times [...] Most reckless of reckless angels
~ Edward Hirsch
Thanks to her having kept a diary even as a teenager, Mary was able to give the exact date of her arrival in Hollywood: April 19, 1923, two weeks before her seventeenth birthday.
~ Edward Sorel
When God is a greater cause of joy for you than the world, you have arrived.
~ Edward Weiss
He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]
~ Eike von Repkow
waited for her under the maple trees
~ Eleanor Estes
I still remember him fondly, there in the doorway. He was absolutely the first person to show me how comfortable it is to arrive in a strange, potentially hostile environment, and discover that you have been preceded by your reputation, that you don't have to do anything to be accepted, that your name is known, that everyone knows about you, and it's the others, the strangers, who must strive to win your favor, and not you theirs.
~ Elena Ferrante
Cómo quieres que se vaya, si vino por ella?
~ Elena Garro
The train came into sight, rumbling closer, bringing the feeling of aliveness and plenitude inherent to incoming trains.
~ Elif Batuman
longer familiar to anyone, not in this new place. Gone are those who understand how you became yourself. Gone are the reasons lurking in the past that might excuse your mistakes. Gone is everything beyond your name on the day of your arrival, and even that may ultimately be surrendered.
~ Anthony Shadid
I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
~ Antonio Porchia
When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.
~ Antonio Russo
And maybe this man was a marauder. No one knew anything about him other than that the dark magick running through his Unseelie veins was both lethal and sexual in nature. The court buzzed with the news of his arrival and his meeting with the Summer Queen, High Royal of the Seelie Tuatha Dé Danann.
~ Anya Bast
It feels great just finally knowing where I'm going and have some place to call home. And I'm glad it's Boston.
~ Jayson Tatum
The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.
~ June Allyson
The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.
~ Frederick Beuchner
You will not get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.
~ Freidrich Neitzsche
THE MAD ROBOT, by William P. McGivern Originally published in Amazing Stories, January 1944. CHAPTER I Rick Weston arrived at the Earth space-port outside Greater New York at six o'clock in the morning. He was driven directly to the mooring tower where his slim, fast pursuit single-seater was being readied for his trip to Jupiter
~ Fritz Leiber
Although we didn't invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway-with a gift. No need, Char and I chimed together. Remember when you were a squirrel, Mandy said.
~ Gail Carson Levine
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
~ Fanny Kemble