Quotes About Return

I always come back. He does, too. Actions speak.

recognize him as such, too. Yes, he had disobeyed his queen. So had many others, who'd never been punished so harshly. Had the crime he'd committed merited a death sentence? There were other Seelie who felt as he did, who wanted a return to

Anger is a boomerang.

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

Because a garden is the heart of a house, where love is the seed and the dark earth like a mother who nurtures her saplings until they bloom, and then waits for them with furrowed arms to return. It is the story told again and again from my garden: from dust we begin, and to dust we will return again.

We'll finish our business, and as soon as we get the chance, we'll come back." The minute the words were out of his mouth, he realized his mistake.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

She paced her room all day, tossed sleeplessly in her bed all night. At dusk, she sat in her window and poured all her longing and desire into her songs, hoping he would somehow hear her and return. And he did.

echo those of Kuznets, the hallowed creator of national income itself. 'Distinctions must be kept in mind,' he advised back in the 1960s, 'between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between the short and the long term . . . Objectives should be explicit: goals for "more" growth should specify more growth of what and for what.

the hamam remains the only living descendant of the Roman bathing tradition, and it was via the hamam that the Roman custom would return to medieval Europe.

He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away there is a home waiting for him to return.

I could have not returned, and I've returned.

Ma in un pomeriggio di agosto alla pineta ci tornò con un branco di tacchini cercando ombra, e ci trovò l'amore

To return to the city of one's birth always felt like retreat.

With equal intensity, she feared her New York life was the best of all possible worlds, and that once she left New York, the gates would come down and lock, and she'd be too feeble and parochial to ever be allowed to return.

Looks like the weather's bad in Mapletown. Grab your umbrella, and we'll be back real soon.

One good turn deserves another.

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

You'll eventually have to realize that you can't spiritualize anything that is not spirit, which means you can't really spiritualize anything in the universe of form. The truly spiritual is only outside of it. That is where you really belong, and will eventually return.

No sneak previews. Except this one. You'll see me again soon. When the Pandora box opens.-River, Doctor Who

Prodigals are not always the runaways but sometimes are those who stay on the family path.

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

His voice, what he said, remains, and it is here, all of those voices are here, in what I am telling you. If in the beginning there was the word, then perhaps, with humility at the smallness of our powers, in words a small part of us can return.