Coming Home Quotes - Page 4

• From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Military, Home, America

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.

  Demetri Martin

  Summer, Home, School

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

  Edie Falco

  Fun, Home, My Family

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• I’m a better person in a relationship, and I’m a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Motivation, Character, Home

  "Not So Goodwin". Interview with Danielle Stein, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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• If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Home, Acting, Actors

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• Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Falling In Love, Love You, Home

  Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Wedding Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.83, Penguin

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• Mummy’s coming home late tonight. It’ll be just we guys, so we can get drunk and watch porn.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Home, Drunk, Guy

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• I don’t like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you. This is uncharted territory for me, but I need to know that at the end of the night, I have you to come home to.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Love You, Home, Night

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.830, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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• I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.

  Darren Shan

  Home, Boys, Years

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• When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Blessed, Home

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.86

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• I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

  Adam Savage

  Jobs, Husband, Dirty

  "Stay Curious with Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters". Interview with Jenny Williams, www.wired.com. October 5, 2009.

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• That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!

  David Benioff

  Home, Past, Eggs

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• He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.

  Tom Waits

  Wrestling, Home, Thinking

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• Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?” “I’m not sure. How do you tell?” “Love? Why, it’s like coming home.” Hadrian considered the comment. “What are you thinking?” Bulard asked. Hadrian shook his head. “Nothing.” “Yes, you were. What? You can tell me. I’m an excellent repository for secrets. I’ll likely forget, but if I don’t, well, I’m an old man in a remote jungle. I’m sure to die before I can repeat anything.” Hadrian smiled, then shrugged. “I was just thinking about the rain.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Rain, Home, Men

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• I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Home, Tired, Heart

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Jace, There is no wedding! Stop Isabelle! Sit on her if you have to. Just stop her from doing whatever she's doing or I can never come home. -Alec

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Jace, Ifs

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• Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Home, Soul

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• I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup.

  Groucho Marx

  Home, Opportunity, Play

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• Try it on." "It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled. "It has a slit up the thigh." His smile depened. "Zip it up?" Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, i will track Scott down, and when i find him, it won't be pretty.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Eye, Hard Times

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• Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come home. Take me out of your address book, William

  Gena Showalter

  Book, Home, Warrior

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.230, HQN Books

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• I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean

  Hugh Howey

  Home, Clean

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• Ranger removed my goggles "Would you like to come home with me?" I stepped away from him. "Thank you for the offer, but no. I'm done with men." Ranger smiled. "Forever?" "Until I figure some things out." "And if you don't figure them out?" "If I can't figure them out on my own, I'll ask you to help me." "Babe, that's like the blind leading the blind.

  Janet Evanovich

  Home, Men, Forever

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• On his teenage son: To be honest, I'm not sure the same kid comes home each night.

  John Bishop

  Funny, Teenage, Home

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• You nodded towards the cup. "Want more?" I shook my head. "What about the car?" "Didn't find it. You were heading back towards me when I found you." "Towards . . . ?" You nodded. "So I reckoned the car had probably got stuck or died somehow, and you were just coming home." "Home?" "Yeah." Your mouth twitched. "Back to me.

  Lucy Christopher

  Home, Found You, Car

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