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Quotes About Arrival

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.
~ Minnie Pearl
World Soccer Stars presents a great opportunity to celebrate the arrival of football, and from what I know, football is the next emerging sport in Pakistan.
~ Carles Puyol
When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.
~ Lionel Shriver
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
~ Steve Erickson
When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.
~ Elaine Chao
When I stepped in America outside of the plane, I said, 'I came home.'
~ Enes Kanter
New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.
~ Thomas French
Acosta alludes to this, in his "History of the Indies," as follows: "In the beginning of the year 1518, they (the Mexicans), discovered a fleet at sea, in the which was the Marques del Valle, Don Fernando Cortez, with his companions, a news which much troubled Montezuma, and conferring with his council, they all said, that without doubt, their great and ancient lord Quetzalcoatle was come, who had said that he would return from the East, whither he had gone." [239:6]
~ Thomas William Doane
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
~ Thorstein Veblen
When those buses arrive, the last thing I need is some geriatric rumble." The
~ Tim Dorsey
I was born, and the doctor left. And then the nurse is like, 'Doctor, I think there's another one.'
~ Jonathan Scott
How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying. And, sure enough, as soon as they were all quite still, it began to move quickly through the streets, and in a very short time they arrived at the royal palace.
~ Norton Juster
There was still plenty of time to spare when Çetin Efendi dropped my parents and me at the revolving doors, which were shaded by a canopy in the form of a flying carpet.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Welcome to our border city, sir. But what are you here for?" Ka explained that he had come to cover the municipal elections and also perhaps to write about the suicide girls. "As in Batman, the stories about the suicide girls have been exaggerated," the journalist replied. "Let's go over to meet Kas?m Bey, the assistant chief of police. They should know you've arrived—just in case.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's a mess, aint it Sheriff? If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I got here the same way the coin did.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The man thought he seemed some sad and solitary changeling child announcing the arrival of a traveling spectacle in shire and village who does not know that behind him the players have all been carried off by wolves.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It's a mess, aint it Sheriff? If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What are you going to do? I dont know. Wait. For what? I dont know. When will you know? When it gets here.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Wherever you debark was the train's destination all along.
~ Cormac McCarthy
At last. Here they came. Trumpets rang out in a fanfare L. from the city gates, an arrogant metallic sound.
~ Cornelia Funke
Sie war so froh, das Jacob gekommen war. Und wünschte sich so sehr, er hätte sie nie gefunden.
~ Cornelia Funke
The people who were least expected to worship the Christ-child come to do so, while those who should have been awaiting him are threatened by his arrival.
~ Craig L. Blomberg