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Quotes About Arrival

What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.
~ Louise Gluck
I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.
~ Bill Bryson
I love to travel, don't like the getting there 'planes' but love it when I arrive.
~ Danny O'Donoghue
Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
~ Andy Rooney
Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
I travel, always arriving in the same place.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
When to arrive at the airport?: You should be at the airport already.
~ Dave Barry
It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.
~ John Keats
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
~ David Bowie
You are the beginning of Eternity now, she said silently to Master Haywood. You have arrived at the end of Fear. And I will love you always, for as long as the world endures.
~ Sherry Thomas
More anticipated the beginning.... Less welcome is the end.... and vice versa
~ Siddharth Astir
My God . . . that grinding is a greeting. My arrival is honored with the honing of an axe
~ Simon Armitage
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
~ Sir Walter Scott
late, too, just so you know. Both took off a while ago, maybe half an hour 'fore you got here." "All right," Caine said, "now it's
~ Max Allan Collins
A woman appeared and began to generate tea and coffee
~ Max Barry
God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile
~ Max Lucado
One's imagination is kindled thinking about the conversation of the innkeeper and his family at the breakfast table. Did anyone mention the arrival of the young couple the night before? Did anyone ask about their welfare? Did anyone comment on the pregnancy of the girl on the donkey? Perhaps. Perhaps someone raised the subject. But, at best, it was raised, not discussed. There was nothing that novel about them. They were, possibly, one of several families turned away that night.
~ Max Lucado
Augustus did the economy of Bethlehem a favor when he decreed that a census should be taken. Who could remember when such commerce had hit the village? No, it is doubtful that anyone mentioned the couple's arrival or wondered about the condition of the girl. They were too busy. The day was upon them. The day's bread had to be made. The morning's chores had to be done. There was too much to do to imagine that the impossible had occurred. God had entered the world as a baby.
~ Max Lucado
When the angels announced the arrival of the Messiah, they proclaimed "good news of a great joy" (Luke 2:10 RSV), not "bad news of a great duty.
~ Max Lucado
we drove up to the three-shaded house
~ Maya Angelou
The villain kids all had questions when they'd first arrived too: Was it okay to eat as much food as you could from the refectory? (Jay) Could you take as many classes as you could fit into your schedule—or even take two classes at the same time, if you worked really fast? (Carlos, of course.) Evie had wanted to know if they had to wear uniforms (they didn't), while Mal's only question was where she could acquire purple spray paint (the art studio).
~ Melissa de la Cruz
By Zeus's goolies, it's about time you got here!
~ Mercedes Lackey
At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity.
~ Beatrix Potter
The Mexicans relate that, shortly before our arrival in New Spain, there appeared a figure in the heavens of a circular form, like a carriage wheel, the colours of which were a mixture of green and red. Shortly after a second, of a similar form, made its appearance, which moved towards the rising of the sun, and joined the first.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo