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Quotes About Arrival

Niemcy przyjechali z Opatowa — rzeczywiÅ›cie wida? byÅ'o ludzi przed stajniÄ… — i, ju? apoplektyczny, popÄ™dziÅ', za nim ?ona, za nimi Fryderyk, który myÅ›laÅ' mo?e, ?e bÄ™dzie mógÅ' siÄ™ przyda?, znajÄ…c dobrze niemiecki.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Thalassa, Thalassa!
~ Xenophon
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
~ Christopher Morley
Oh, sir, I'm glad you got home in time for Christmas," she said. "The children were counting on it. Did you have a successful trip, sir?" "Every trip is successful when you get home again," said Gissing.
~ Christopher Morley
There were two more cars parked in the lot than when Seph and Madison had arrived. One was the old Jeep that Will and Ellen shared. The other one was unfamiliar, a black minivan with a rent-a-car sticker. It must belong to the alumni, Seph thought. At least he hoped so, because he melted all four tires.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
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
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
~ Coco Chanel
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the one before. G. K. Chesterton
~ Colin Dexter
On hearing that she was to continue to act as Malcolm Sage's secretary, Miss Gladys Norman had done a barn-dance across the room, her arrival at the door synchronising with the appearance of Malcolm Sage from without. It had become a tradition at Department Z that "M.S." could always be depended upon to arrive at the most embarrassing moment of any little dramatic episode; but it was equally well-known that he possessed a "blind-side" to his vision. They called it "the Nelson touch.
~ Unknown
Every journey ends; terminates, at some pier, some mist-shrouded wharf, where torches are waiting.
~ Hilary Mantel
They arrived on a Sunday, two vengeful grandees: the Duke of Norfolk a bright-eyed hawk
~ Hilary Mantel
in case the dead ones rolled in late.
~ Hilary Mantel
Ah." He sat down on the couch, looking stunned with lack of sleep. "And so you came here in the middle of the night?
~ Holly Black
Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.
~ Liane Moriarty
On my way. Nearly there! These were their last foolish (and often misspelled) words. Madeline
~ Liane Moriarty
Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her. "Well,
~ Liane Moriarty
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?
~ Unknown
Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead. Home.
~ Linda Lael Miller
Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.
~ Lisa Bevere
all happened so slowly, yet so extraordinarily quickly, the change to our parents, to our home, to our lives after they arrived.
~ Lisa Jewell
It all happened so slowly, yet so extraordinarily quickly, the change to our parents, to our home, to our lives after they arrived. But that first night, when Birdie appeared on our front step with two large suitcases and a cat in a wicker box, we could never have guessed the impact she would have, the other people she would bring into our lives, that it would all end the way it did.
~ Lisa Jewell
When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.
~ Jerry Lewis
I heard the front door open and Rita hustled into the house, home from dropping the children at school. She went through the living room and into the kitchen making all the loud and distinct sounds of someone trying to be quiet.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The elevator made a muted ding sound to announce its arrival at last, but I was no longer interested, because I had a thought. Every now and then I do have thoughts. Most of them never make it all the way to the surface, probably because of a lifetime of trying to seem human. But this one came slowly up and, like a gas bubble bursting through mud, popped brightly in my brain. "Saturday morning?" I said. "Do you remember what time?
~ Jeff Lindsay