Coming Home Quotes - Page 3

• Going home must be like going to render an account.

  Joseph Conrad

  Home, Literature, Accounts

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

  Waylon Jennings

  War, Home, Fighting

  Song: America

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• From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Sex, Military, War

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

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• Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Halloween, Home

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• I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

  Joe Flanigan

  Believe, Home, Thinking

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• What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Want

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I’m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it’ll be just like coming home.

  Grant Morrison

  Home, Doors, May

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• Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

  Lionel Shriver

  Home, Night, Waiting

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.46, Counterpoint Press

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• Kisten, please don't leave me," I begged, and his eyes opened. "I'm cold," he said, fear rising in his blue eyes. I held him tighter. "I'm holding you. It's going to be okay." "Tell Ivy," he said with a gasp, clenching in on himself. "Tell Ivy that it wasn't her fault. And tell her that at the end... you remember love. I don't think... we lose our souls... at all. I think God keeps them for us until we... come home. I love you, Rachel." "I love you, too, Kisten," I sobbed, and as I watched, his eyes, memorizing my face, silvered, and he died.

  Kim Harrison

  Love You, Home, Eye

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• Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

  Morgan Freeman

  Home

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• I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

  Tim Ferriss

  Eye, Home, School

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• I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

  Bob Feller

  Hero, Home, Gun

  "Feller Proud to Serve in 'Time of Need'", www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2010.

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• It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

  Marcel Achard

  Home, Men, Risk

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• She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

  Libba Bray

  Grief, Home, Waiting

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• My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancée, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago. Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War.

  Meg Cabot

  War, Home, Years

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour”, p.57, Zondervan

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• You’re my wife, Eva. I don’t care if anyone else knows it or not, I know it. And I want to come home to you, have coffee in the morning with you, zip up the back of your dresses, and unzip them at night.

  Sylvia Day

  Morning, Coffee, Home

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• Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over.

  Philip K. Dick

  Home, Giving, Forever

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s”

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• Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Home, Men

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

  Simon Armitage

  Home, Hands, Hatred

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• I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.

  Michael Moore

  Home, Support, Troops

  "Those Who Say ‘I Support the Troops’ Really Don’t" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Inspiration, Home, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Stupid, Home

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• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Home, School

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