Returning Home Quotes:

Awareness returning home is awareness being enfolded by what it knows.

- John de Ruiter

topic: Home, Awareness, Returning Home

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

- John Updike

topic: Home, Car, Literature, Returning Home

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

topic: Children, Home, Roots, Longing For Home, Returning Home

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

- Cindy Ross

source: Cindy Ross (1987). “Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada”, p.187, Mountaineers Books

topic: Distance, Home, Adventure, Backpacking, Returning Home

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

- Sun Tzu

topic: Home, Army, Enemy, Returning Home

At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze; While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.139

topic: Children, Home, Night, Sped, Returning Home

Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

- Larry Heinemann

topic: Home, Heart, Dark, Returning Home

I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home.

- Edna Walling

topic: Home, Garden, Giving, Returning Home

I was really inspired by my own experience, and specifically my own identity crisis but larger than that, I also wanted to explore the trend of reverse immigration, of the immigrant returning home after being in a host country or an adopted home for 20 years, and finding themselves at various levels of discord with the home culture. I wanted to explore people building lives across multiple geographies. I think that's, something that we're experiencing more and more as travel becomes easier, as people are traveling more for work. People can work from anywhere.

- Cherien Dabis

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Country, Home, Thinking, Returning Home

I think that we need to begin talking about what does it mean to create these safe spaces in our communities, to begin welcoming one another into our homes and into our communities when they're returning home from prison, people who are on the streets. We need to begin doing the work in our own communities of creating the kind of democracy that we would like to see on a larger scale.

- Michelle Alexander

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Home, Mean, Thinking, Returning Home

The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.

- Ian Caldwell

source: Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

topic: Home, Adventure, Waiting, Returning Home

The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.

- Larry Heinemann

topic: Betrayal, Lying, Grief, Southeast Asia, Dark Places

Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.

- William Carlos Williams

source: William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

topic: Home, Writing, Faces, Womens Day, Returning Home

Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.

- Robert M. Sapolsky

topic: Gratitude, Strong, Prayer, Misanthrope, Cranky

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

- John Shadegg

topic: Home, Keys, Ties, Returning Home

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

topic: Home, Mexico, Guests, Hispanic, Returning Home

as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled him again. suspended somewhere between cherubs and devils, his quarry ceased to buck, and he spread his wings wide and let the rising wind carry them off across the sky, until even the predator himself had lost every hope of returning home. within that one embrace, [he] became aware of a feeling of certainty he had not thought possible for anyone - even the virtuous. with her in his arms, all other women, past, present, and future, simply ceased to exist.

- Anne Fortier

topic: Home, Past, Wind, Quarry, Cherubs

To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection. They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire. That is why the warriors risk more than others. They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul. Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no meaning.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 14, 2014

topic: Home, Heart, Mean, Impossible Love, Warrior Of The Light

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

- Pierre Loti

topic: Country, Home, Sight, Returning Home

Life is going forth; death is returning home.

- Laozi

source: Lao Tzu, Laozi, Tom Butler-Bowdon (2012). “Tao Te Ching: The Ancient Classic”, p.105, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Death, Home, Life Is, Returning Home

Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify and strengthen our bodies and minds. Like recharging the batteries, even after returning home we will be able to continue our meditation and japa.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Home, Air, Breathing, Recharging, Returning Home

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

source: 1861 Said on welcoming his successor, Abraham Lincoln, to the White House.

topic: Happiness, Country, Home, Returning Home, Happiest Man

It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.

- Mitt Romney

topic: Country, Gratitude, War, Returning Home

My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on compassionate leave. As a result, my mother had to get work, as a nurse, and at seven the RAF put me into a boarding school and ex-orphanage called the Royal Wolverhampton School.

- Eric Idle

source: "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

topic: Mother, Father, War, Raf, Returning Home

She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home.

- Lauren Kate

topic: Home, Sea, Long, Returning Home

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

source: Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage

topic: Country, Home, Destiny, Hunted, Returning Home