Quotes About Arrival

The scene that Cortés described so vividly - the arrival of the Spanish invaders in the Mexican capital - took place on November 8, 1519.

House. The man who had left California in 1854, penniless and under a cloud, to return to his wife in St. Louis, arrived in San Francisco on a September day in 1879 to such tumult and shouts as the youthful city had never known. This time Julia stood by his side, their two-year Odyssey ended,

For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.

I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after the end of the world had taken place.

Irene is a name for a city in the distance, and if you approach, it changes. For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene. — Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

The city displays one face to the traveler arriving overland and a different one to him who arrives by sea.

S?uchaj, jak si? czas zbli?a, i daj mu nadej??.

A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

It was like sitting in a silent room waiting for someone very important someone for whom you have been waiting a long while and then suddenly hearing a knock on the door. For just a minute you hesitate wondering who it might be and what does he want and why did he come. For just a second you're scared because although you've waited for years you really never expected the knock.

Newcastle was tough - the manager who'd signed me, Bobby Robson, got sacked three games into the season, so a new manager arrived, and I ended up going on loan again, to Aston Villa.

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

And now it is now, and the dark thing is here.

They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache

I sat down again, wishing I had never been brought here. It was as if I had walked onstage into the middle of a dramatic play, where the other characters are already engaged in a battle that has been going on for some years but which only now, upon my arrival, is allowed to reach a climax.

I drove for miles and miles and wound up at your door. I've had you so many times but somehow I want more.

All journeys eventually end in the same place, home.

'Why were you late?' Cause the bell rang before I got here...

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

My car finally heats up when I reach my destination.

Death is nature's way of saying, 'Your table is ready.

Gone, but only until we get there

I feel like I came to acting late in a way.

Alisson arrives at Liverpool with much more experience than De Gea had when he first went to United so I don't think there will be anyone out there who doesn't feel Alisson shouldn't be here.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.