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Quotes About Return

Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum illuc, unde negant redire quemquam. Ahora él va por camino tenebroso allí, donde niegan volver a nadie.
~ Catulus.
One day, I hope to go back. To my wife, to my girls, but also to the man of moral certainty that I was that day; that innocent man, who knew with such clear confidence exactly what it was that he was meant to do.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I'll be back quick as a rumor.
~ Geralyn Dawson
Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.
~ Giacomo Casanova
He burned and crackled and he ran from me with a sudden childlike agility, as if all the stamina of his youth had returned.
~ Gil Brewer
What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.
~ Gina Greenlee
Then I'd go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel's inspiration. What was different?
~ Gina Greenlee
Quando uno lascia il suo paese è meglio che non ci torni più, perché ogni cosa muta faccia mentre egli è lontano, e anche le faccie con cui lo guardano son mutate, e sembra che sia diventato straniero anche lui.
~ Giovanni Verga
One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even to get to one's own yard of intimacies.
~ Gish Jen
The poet goes there then returns to the light with his songs and scatters them Of this poetry there remains to me that nothing of inexhaustible secrecy.
~ Giuseppe Ungaretti
rampole isn't here and nobody knows when she'll be back
~ Gladys Mitchell
I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
~ Gloria Steinem
Now that being on the road was my choice, not my fate, I lost the melancholy feeling of 'everybody has a home but me'. I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of 'either/or', I discovered a whole world of 'and'.
~ Gloria Steinem
If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.
~ Gordon Korman
Let no man's ghost return to say his training let him down.
~ Firefighter saying
Self and soil! — ha! ha! "The soil is always grateful," says my uncle — "makes you a return in exact proportion to what you bestow on it in the way of manure and labor, — men don't." Says he, "the man that has got one hand in your pocket shakes the other fist in your face; the man that has got both hands in your pocket spits in your face."
~ Charles Reade, White Lies
You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
You always return to the water...
~ Jacques Derrida
Every revolution, whether atheistic or religious, bears witness to a return of the sacred ? in the form of enthusiasm or fervour, otherwise known as the presence of the gods within us
~ Jacques Derrida
grité que por favor que no volviéramos nunca, nunca jamás a casa. Por supuesto, volvimos.
~ Jaime Gil de Biedma
He takes what he wants and then gives us back what is already ours.
~ James A. Michener
As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.
~ James Allen
He smiled, Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home. He played with my thumb and grinned. N'est-ce pas ? Beautiful logic, I said. You mean I have a home to go to as long as I don't go there? He laughed. Well, isn't it true? You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
~ James Baldwin