Homecoming Quotes

• Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

  Charles Dickens

  Travel, Home, Appreciate

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14099, Delphi Classics

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• To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

  Margaret Barber

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

  George McGovern

  Inspirational, Dream, Country

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

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• It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Mindfulness, Short Memory

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• The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

  Rumi

  Pain, Grief, Journey

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• You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

  Maya Angelou

  Home, Truth Is, Cozy Home

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• All coming to Jesus has the feeling of homecoming upon it. All going away from Him has the sense of estrangement upon it. The rich young ruler went away from Jesus "sorrowful." Everybody does. Not only estrangement from God, but also estrangement from oneself. And the universe! And from life! You are not at home with life, unless you are at home with Life. And Jesus is Life!

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Home, Feelings

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• Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sweet, Memories, Bears

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Pain, Believe, Struggle

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• There is no feeling like coming home after danger.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Feelings, Coming Home

  FaceBook post by Bear Grylls from Feb 28, 2012

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• The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fear, Men, Feelings

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Home, Long, Champion

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.144, Macmillan

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• When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

  William J. Clinton

  Sports, Country, Team

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2890, Best Books on

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• Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

  Paul Celan

  Inspirational, Poetry Is

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• Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, . . .

  Betty Eadie

  Death, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Betty J. Eadie (1997). “The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

  Vicki Baum

  Happiness, Happy, Dance

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• What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine

  James Lafferty

  Senior, Cutting, Hair

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• In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Long, Bells, Tables

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• Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

  Laini Taylor

  Happiness, Stars, Passion

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• Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Home, Journey

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

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• What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Children, Memories, Childhood

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• Your homecoming will be my homecoming

  e. e. cummings

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company

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