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Quotes About Return

Gina Carano is a great athlete, and I'd be happy if she returns to MMA - doesn't matter if it's against Ronda.
~ Cris Cyborg
It would be nice to go back to Rome; it's my old club. I love the fans there, and they love me, too.
~ Mohamed Salah
A return to the Eredivisie would be nice, but only if it's Ajax. I don't want to play for another team.
~ Ryan Babel
Would I work in Scotland again? Of course I would. I loved every single second of being there.
~ Brendan Rodgers
Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.
~ Jonathan Carroll
The man who 'forgets' his toothbrush in a woman's house is a man who wants to come back.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Il grimpa l'escalier menant à son appartement dont il avait été si éloigné durant les deux ans et demi passés que le lieu semblait s'être retourné contre lui, ne plus vouloir être son chez-lui.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I am exiting the wider world, to return to my homeland of bullying, psychosis, and bad taste. Forgive me. It is a medical matter. Once
~ Jonathan Lethem
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, and how can I get back?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Temí que no quedara una sola cosa capaz de sorprenderme, temí que no me abandonara jamás la impresión de volver. Felizmente, al cabo de unas noches de insomnio me trabajó otra vez el olvido.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Men can return to where they have done evil deeds, but men do not return to where they've been abased. On this point God's design and our own feeling of abasement coincide so absolutely that we quit: the night, the rotting beast, the exultant mobs, our homes, our hearthfires, Bacchus in a vacant lot embracing Ariadne in the dark.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.
~ Joseph Campbell
And through the initiation by the three goddesses who were slighted in the beginning by the Judgment of Paris, he is made ready to return home to his wife, Penelope, and rescue her from the suitors.
~ Joseph Campbell
Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.
~ A. A. Milne
Happy bridegroom, Hesper bringsAll desired and timely things.All whom morning sends to roam,Hesper loves to lead them home.Home return who him behold,Child to mother, sheep to fold,Bird to nest from wandering wide:Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
~ A. E. Housman
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter ' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
~ A. N. Wilson
Aléjate, si puedes. Volverás con el hambre a flor de piel.
~ A.E. Samaan
He gave you life; then will He cause you to die, and will again bring you to life; and again to Him will ye return.
~ Abdullah Yusuf Ali
You were born a child of light's wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
~ Aberjhani
I picture a heart lying down on the floor of the torso, pulling up the blankets over its head, thinking this pain will go on forever (even though it won't). The heart is watching Lifetime movies and wishing, and missing all the good parts of her that she has forgotten. The heart is so tired of beating herself up, she wants to stop it still, but also she wants the blood to return, wants to bring in the thrill and wind of the ride, the fast pull of life driving underneath her.
~ Ada Limón
It turns out poetry does, in fact, do the thing I want it to do… it helps me return to the world, to experience it, to pay attention.
~ Ada Limón
When the Habsburg State crumbled to pieces in 1918 the Austrian Germans instinctively raised an outcry for union with their German fatherland. That was the voice of a unanimous yearning in the hearts of the whole people for a return to the unforgotten home of their fathers.
~ Adolf Hitler
Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.