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Quotes About Return

There is no mile as long the final one that leads back home.
~ Katherine Marsh
The moment you've uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you're already turning towards home.
~ David Whyte
Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.
~ Maud Lindsay
In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.
~ Os Guinness
The way back is always shorter.
~ Maya Deren
Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.
~ Nick Mancuso
You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.
~ Tove Jansson
Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.
~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
~ Isak Dinesen
Your heart is your home, and all roads lead to home.
~ Gary Zukav
I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
~ Bob Dylan
You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
~ James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.
~ Clare Vanderpool
I long for home, long for the sight of home.
~ Homer
Going home must be like going to render an account.
~ Joseph Conrad
...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.
~ Aldous Huxley
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
~ John Thorn
I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.
~ Jay London
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
~ Sting
Nothing wrong with wanting to go home.
~ Stephon Marbury
Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!
~ William Allingham
Home is the place that goes where you go, yet it welcomes you upon your return. Like a dog overjoyed at the door. We've missed you is what you hear, no matter how long you've been gone.
~ Michael J. Rosen
Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.
~ Cornelia Funke
Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.
~ Nicole Blackman