Coming Home Quotes - Page 32

• What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

  Margaret Fuller

  Children, Home, Differences

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.419, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Home, Joy, Suffering

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.

  Eric Roth

  Home, Funny Things, Smell

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• That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

  Ray Bradbury

  Hurt, Home, Waiting

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• 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

  Hurt, Book, Home

  Lauren Groff (2008). “The Monsters of Templeton”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Home, Night

  Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.124

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• Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Optimistic, Eye

  Billy Graham (1995). “Angels”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Spiritual, Travel, Women

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Christ Legends and the Miracles of Antichrist”, p.477, Library of Alexandria

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• There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

  Sam Snead

  Home, Golf, Men

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• God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Spring, Rain

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• I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Real, Home

  "The Last Battle " by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 15), 1956.

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• Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Home, Owning A Pet

  John Grogan (2012). “Marley & Me”, p.251, Hachette UK

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• You're the reason I get out of bed every night. And you're the reason I can't wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It's...you.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, War, Home

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: Number 9 in series”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• Every dog should have a man of his own. There is nothing like a well-behaved person around the house to spread the dog's blanket for him, or bring him his supper when he comes home man-tired at night.

  Corey Ford

  Funny, Dog, Home

  Corey Ford (1952). “Every Dog Should Have a Man: The Care and Feeding of Dog's Best Friend”

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• The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Home, Knitting, People

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.24, Storey Publishing

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• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Home, Long, Feelings

  "Patrick Dempsey's wife files for divorce after 15 YEARS of marriage and they 'do not have a pre-nup'" by Katy Forrester, www.mirror.co.uk. January 24, 2015.

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• After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can be equally familiar to you. With time you can learn where to go for nourishment, where to hide for protection , where to turn for guidance. Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Home, House

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Peace, Home

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• The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Literature, Might

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness.

  Tara Brach

  Home, And Love, Needs

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• But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and remembered it with such blazing accuracy, if it did not matter, and if this little town, and the immortal hills around it, was not the only home he had on earth? He did not know. All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Home, Men, Years

  Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

  Jean Klein

  Home, Roots, Desire

  Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, New Harbinger Publications

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• Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Home, Mean, Faithful

  Marilynne Robinson (2008). “Home: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

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• I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.

  Monique Lhuillier

  Life, Kids, Home

  "The designer making Rihanna, Scarlett and Gwyneth look good". Interview with Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

  Danica McKellar

  Perseverance, Teacher, Block

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