There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown. — Joseph Dougherty
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. — Iain Sinclair
Being away from home is nice but home is best. — Swedish Proverbs
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. — Dorothy L. Sayers
You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees. — Wilhelm II
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune. — Daniel Boone
Return to me, for my heart wants you only. Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart. — Dean Martin
If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home. — Tom Waits
Short Returning Home Quotes
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. — Rumi
To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are. — Sam Keen
Home is where the heart is. — Pliny The Elder
More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home. — Scott O'Dell
If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
Father Returning Home Quotes
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. — Robert Bly
Jesus Christ has ‘marked the path and led the way’ for each of us. If we follow His lead, we will all return to our heavenly home and be safe in Heavenly Father’s arms. — Rosemary M. Wixom
I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away. — Uzo Aduba
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
We go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them. — Linda K. Burton
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned — Gail Carson Levine
Movie Quotes
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder
Respect is earned, Honesty is appreciated, Love is gained and Loyalty is returned.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes
You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed? — Wyatt Earp
See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody. — Frank Lucas
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room. — Frank Lucas
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. — J. K. Rowling
Coming Home Quotes
I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky. — Gene Wilder
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins. — Joan D. Chittister
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. — Tecumseh
It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business. — Maxine Waters
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. — Marie Corelli
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You’re here now, welcome home. — Warsan Shire
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. — Woodrow Wilson
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true. — Langston Hughes
Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. — Nostradamus
Going Home Quotes
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. — Dick Gregory
If you want to change the world, go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity. — John Muir
I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. — Sojourner Truth
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. — Sam Ewing
To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.
We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love. — St. Catherine of Siena
But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home. — Dogen
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa
My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep. — Neville Chamberlain
Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian — Rick Riordan
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. — Mickey Mantle
Take care of your body, it's the only home you have.
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. — Mary Cheney
The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide. — Paul Sadler
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. — Tad Williams
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again. — George Jones
SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE. — Herschel Walker
All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home. — Paul Theroux
When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home. — Muso Soseki
Journey Home Quotes
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home. — Wendell Berry
The journey home to God is what life is about. In a sense it's not even a journey. It's an ongoing experience. — Harold Klemp
The mind that opens up to a new idea never returns to its original size.
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last. — Frederick Buechner
I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am. — Heath Ledger
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. — Richard Burton
The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles...only by a spiritual journey...by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home. The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job. — Jesse Owens
I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere. — Dr. Dre
Little by little, the bird makes its nest.
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back. — Kurt Vonnegut
Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home. — Christina Milian
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets. — Gregory Corso
Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home. — Sayings
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate. — Jim Ramstad
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow. — Sylvia Plath
Driving Home Quotes
The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring . — Jacob Bronowski
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. — John Updike
I’m going to do what I want, get my money and go home. — Amanda Nunes
My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me. — Sean Astin
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. — Sophocles
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk. — Kim Il-sung
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. — Tommy Lasorda
You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back! — Richard Simmons
Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs. — Pete Rose
Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home. — Howlin' Wolf
Way Back Home Quotes
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. — Vin Diesel
Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun. — Alex D. Linz
Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back. — Colin Wilson
God's Love is always working to help Soul find its way back home — Harold Klemp
There’s no way I’m going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country. — Prince Harry
I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to France, why would they want to change France, to live in France the same way they lived back home? — Marine Le Pen
There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful. — Nikki Sixx
Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day! — Vivien Leigh
Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it. — Michael Moorcock
Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home? — Erno Rubik
Way Home Quotes
Uh, homes, we are what we are. Black, white, Brown, yellow. Point is don't be ashamed of who you are, man. You wanna call it sterotyping. Hey, This is me, Órale vato, this is who I am. Take me or leave me. You don't like me? Turn around and look the other way. Its that simple. — Eddie Guerrero
I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark. — Andrea Gibson
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. — James Joyce
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples. — Francis of Assisi
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. — Twyla Tharp
I don’t think we’ll ever get to the 2024 election! I think things are going to implode in Washington before then. Our economic financial condition is fragile. It’s going to come home to roost in ugly ways. — Douglas Macgregor
The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved. — Masaaki Imai
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. — Gloria Steinem
When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving - in school or at home - that is the time to apply the lens of multiple intelligences and see whether one can find ways to help the child thrive in different environments. — Howard Gardner
I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees. — Angelina Jolie
The greatest blessings of general conference come to us after the conference is over. Remember the pattern recorded frequently in scripture: we gather to hear the words of the Lord, and we return to our homes to live them. — Robert D. Hales
On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. — Edgar Mitchell
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. — Matt Blunt
Every night, my girlfriend comes home from work, and she brings with her a houseplant. She's like, 'Anthony, I had to pick this up. We need a houseplant in our apartment.' And every night, I make her return it. I say, 'No way, baby. You can't take care of a houseplant. You couldn't even keep your baby alive.' — Anthony Jeselnik
Everything that is meant for you will feel like a deep exhale, as though you are returning home to a place you forgot existed. — Brianna Wiest
I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way. — Sydney Brenner
The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. — Stanley Druckenmiller
Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor. — Henry A. Kissinger
And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore. — Sela Ward
Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends. — James Nesbitt
The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. — Stanley Druckenmiller
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted. — Mary Ellen Chase
Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home. — Dorothea Lasky
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me. — Alice Steinbach
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. — Aboriginal proverbs
Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support to the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, when they resolutely decided to return home, this event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever. — Vladimir Putin
Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself. — Thomas Raymond Kelly
Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage. — Malcolm X
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. — James Buchanan
Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life. — Albert Schweitzer
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home. — Georg Solti
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
All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home. — Taslima Nasrin
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. — George Moore
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history. — Avital Ronell
I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. — Rodney Atkins
The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed. But, all the way to St. Petersburg, the Finn will drink himself into forgetfulness, lose his money, horse, bridle, and return home poorer than a church rat. — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier. — Tina Fey
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal
Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order. — David Mamet
Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. — Dale Carnegie
And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus. — Malaclypse the Younger
The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home. — George W. Bush
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home. — Lauren Groff
A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home. — John Shadegg
I was in total shock. I work so close [to home] that I figured I'd return to work and the baby nurse would bring the baby to me, and I'd run home periodically, and I'd make it work. But every two hours? That's a whole other level. I'll have to make a nursery at the office. — Ivanka Trump
We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking to enact this wisdom as best we can in our daily lives. — William Cronon
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