Homecoming Quotes - Page 4

• What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you.

  Charles Baxter

  Mistake, Voice, Solitude

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.87, Vintage

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• A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sports, Football, School

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.10, University of Georgia Press

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• I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.

  Andy Richter

  Kings, Looks, Way

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2001.

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• Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

  Shannon Hale

  Hurt, Home, Lucky

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• Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Cutting, Wind

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• When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

  George Raveling

  Basketball, Football, Running

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• his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night. Percy Jackson

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Night, Hair

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.188, Penguin UK

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• The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.

  John Carroll

  Men, Garden, Eden

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• We had spent a lot of time in London [with Lucas Goodman], which has been amazing, but also it was kind of a homecoming and we felt so surrounded by a specific community of people who are just so New York, so unapologetically themselves and so creative.

  Jillian Hervey

  New York, People, Creative

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

  Millard Fuller

  People, Community, Healthy

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• Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Football, Nfl Players

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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• Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fan­tasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.

  Alice Miller

  Home, Vitality, Fans

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.19, Basic Books

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