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Quotes About Arrival

We've arrived at another of those doors." There was a sliding door let
~ Douglas Adams
The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
~ Douglas Adams
Oh, hello, Arthur Dent here. Look, sorry I haven't been in for six months but I've gone mad." "Oh, not to worry. Thought it was probably something like that. Happens here all the time. How soon can we expect you?" "When do hedgehogs start hibernating?" "Sometime in spring, I think." "I'll be in shortly after that." "Righty-ho.
~ Douglas Adams
Outside the door were the clear sounds of marching footsteps.
~ Douglas Adams
Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.
~ Aesop
All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.
~ Agatha Christie
My dear Mr. Schwartz, you appeared in the nick of time. It might have been a drama on the stage! I am very much in your debt.
~ Agatha Christie
Expect me when you see me.
~ Agatha Christie
A plump girl, slightly out of breath, with dark hair, rosy cheeks and dark eyes goggling with excitement, bounced in.
~ Agatha Christie
It's good that I should have to come some way to meet you.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
When I arrived there, looking like a mad scientist had tried to flay me open like a tiny Frankenstein, my mother freaked out in appropriate fashion.
~ Aisha Tyler
The real, true spring had arrived, the chestnut trees were in blossom, and the Boche could do nothing about it.
~ Alan Furst
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
~ Alan Paton
In 1989-90 I became one of the group known as the Jordanaires, a.k.a. the Bulls. From the day I arrived in Chicago, I knew what everyone else on the team did: Michael Jordan was a phenomenal talent.
~ B. J. Armstrong
From the moment I arrived in Philadelphia, the city has embraced me.
~ Tobias Harris
I always loved asking everybody when I arrived in England, from the drivers who picked me up to the people at the hotel to people I met when I was walking in the park, almost everyone at some point would say, 'Everyone loves Ant & Dec!' From eight to 80.
~ Bill Pullman
It's funny how we 'do' Christmas. Christmas is not something that we do, it is something that was done. It celebrates the long awaited arrival of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. We had nothing to do with it, but what we can do is praise God for the coming of the Lord, who washed away the sins of the world by dying on the cross.
~ Monica Johnson
You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit. I believed him. I felt this to be true. Some people might consider that passivity but I did not. I considered it living.
~ Rachel Kushner
I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.
~ Rae Armantrout
In all places, the sangats, a majority of them composed of Khatri settlers, honoured Guru Tegh Bahadur, celebrated his son's arrival, and gave offerings.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both sart out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly.
~ Ralph Keyes
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twirling the Jeep into the drive, Josie stopped next to a Mercedes.
~ Rebecca Forster
I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...
~ Rebecca Solnit