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Quotes About Return

Nothing is impossible. Lassana Diarra did not play for France for five years and then returned.
~ Didier Deschamps
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.
~ Jane Smiley
It is simply a moral obligation to make sure our nation's heroes have a home to return to at night.
~ Gene Green
We have an obligation to provide a return for our shareholders.
~ Bobby Kotick
the place we return to is never the same place we left.
~ Orhan Pamuk
But as we all know, the place we return to is never the same place we left.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.
~ Oscar Wilde
Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer I like being missed.
~ Oscar Wilde
When he returned from the war he said to Nurit that he wasn't sure that all of him had come home.
~ Colum McCann
There are moments we return to. We are in theme. We rest there and there is nothing else.
~ Colum McCann
To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his return. Eyes closed, arms oaring. Upright to what? Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He'd taken up a pallet between Toadvine and another Kentuckian, a veteran of the war. This man had returned to claim some darkeyed love he'd left behind two years before when Doniphan's command pulled east for Saltillo and the officers had had to drive back hundreds of young girls dressed as boys that took the road behind the army.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.
~ Cornelia Funke
Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay Why two? asked Mo hoarsely. How can you ask for two lives in return for one?
~ Cornelia Funke
For a moment Dustfinger felt as if he had never been away- as if he had simply had a bad dream, and the memory of it had left a stale taste on his tongue,a shadow on his heart,nothing more.
~ Cornelia Funke
and returning him safely to earth.
~ Craig Nelson
There may yet come a time when Heroes are needed once more. There may yet come a time when the dragons will come back.
~ Cressida Cowell
there is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hinting that one loves and is willing to return, yet never coming back and so preserving a relationship in a lingering decay.
~ Cyril Connolly
I'd like to give you a special gift in return - something you can wear at the fashion show.
~ Daisy Meadows
Good luck tomorrow, everyone. Now hurry back inside
~ Daisy Meadows
Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
~ Wally Lamb We Are Water
Remember my words, I may again return, I love you, I depart from materials, I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.
~ Walt Whitman
Omar Khayyam:     I sent my soul through the Invisible,       Some letter of that after-life to spell,     And by-and-by my soul return'd to me,       And answer'd, I myself am Heaven and Hell.
~ Walt Whitman
The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welchman voyage home . . . and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home; To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships; The Swiss foots it toward his hills . . . the Prussian goes his way, and the Hungarian his way, and the Pole goes his way, The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.
~ Walt Whitman