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Quotes About Arrival

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.
~ L. Frank Baum
Me llamas, yo vengo. Así de fácil
~ L.J. Smith
You can't ever know when the dead world will come to you. Only that it will.
~ Laird Hunt
Last we consider the time of their coming, the season of the year. It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off, in solsitio brumali, 'the very dead of winter
~ Lancelot Andrewes
Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed.
~ Cassandra Clare
Erchomai, it said. I am coming.
~ Cassandra Clare
You know, you think about who you might meet and when they might come. You always know that someday a door will open and in will come the one you've waited for. And then the waiting is done. And the rest of your life can begin. And the minute I looked up and saw you there, I thought, There he is.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
And you will arrive under a soldier's black mantle With your fearful greenish candle And will not show your face to me. But the riddle cannot torment me for long: Whose hand is here, under that white glove Who sent this wanderer, who comes in darkness?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
her footsteps on the stairs. I was expecting
~ Cathy Glass
Just as she said this, the children heard a horse and cart coming up the road.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Whenever you get there, there is no there there.
~ Gertrude Stein
Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
face and come to wait at the place where
~ Gil Adamson
Juet's journal frequently records how only a tiny quantity of alcohol was needed to get the Indians drunk, 'for they could not take it'; and tales of the drunkenness that greeted Hudsons' arrival persisted among the native Indians until the last century. Indeed Heckewelder claims that the name Manhattan is derived from the drunkenness that took place there, since the Indian word 'manahactanienk' means 'the island of general intoxication'.
~ Giles Milton
With the lengthening days which distinguish the third month of winter from its predecessor, come ardent desires for spring, and longings for the time of birds and flowers. An adventurous swallow too early flying from the south, a vision of snowdrops in the snow, a day of April warmth lit by a slant February sun, are all hailed with pleasure as harbingers of a more gracious season on its northland way.
~ Oscar Fay Adams, January 1886
Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure.
~ Portuguese Proverb
Everyone is the same," he told himself. "Anxious to arrive. And when they leave, wondering why they came.
~ Jack Vance
Oh wow! There's a great big Range Rover pulled up outside and a big girl's getting out!' Jonnie yelled. 'I think we might like her after all if she lets us have a ride in her big posh car!
~ Jacqueline Wilson
ALICE AND I are best friends. I've known her all my life. That is absolutely true. Our mums were in hospital at the same time when they were having us. I got born first, at six o'clock in the morning on 3 July. Alice took ages and didn't arrive until four in the afternoon. We both had a long cuddle with our mums and at night time we were tucked up next to each other in little weeny cots.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o'clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had applied for cards at the free library.
~ James A. Michener
There are people in the world for whom coming along is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
~ James Baldwin
My first arrival in India was memorable - landing at Delhi airport at 2 A.M. to start filming 'The Jewel in the Crown' in the Eighties. The man who was supposed to pick me up wasn't there, so I spent a very uncomfortable three hours phoning around hotels to find out where I was supposed to be. It was a major culture shock, but I adored India.
~ Tim Pigott-Smith
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
~ Georg Brandes
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.
~ Kenneth Grahame