Coming Home Quotes - Page 32

• We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

  George W. Bush

  Mistake, Book, Home

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• The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Women, Home, Responsibility

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• I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

  David Alan Grier

  Depressing, Home, Clothes

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• Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman.

  David Letterman

  Mom, Fun, Home

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• The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you the courage you need to let go of the controls. In doing so, you might discover that each time you let go, it becomes easier and easier to re-enter the atmosphere of your own aliveness. Gradually you’ll come home to the flow of your own living presence, the warmth and space of your awakening heart.

  Tara Brach

  Letting Go, Home, Heart

  "Taking Your Hands Off the Controls". Article by Tara Brach, www.tarabrach.com. April 3, 2015.

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• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

  Danica McKellar

  Perseverance, Teacher, Block

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• I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat.

  Lea Michele

  Tattoo, Home, Cat

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• The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Literature, Might

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Real, Home

  "The Last Battle " by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 15), 1956.

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• I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Strong, Hurt, Real

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• Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Home, Owning A Pet

  John Grogan (2012). “Marley & Me”, p.251, Hachette UK

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• Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

  George Orwell

  Home, Government, Cows

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and remembered it with such blazing accuracy, if it did not matter, and if this little town, and the immortal hills around it, was not the only home he had on earth? He did not know. All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Home, Men, Years

  Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Grief

  Jodi Picoult (2004). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.591, Simon and Schuster

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• Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Home, Mean, Faithful

  Marilynne Robinson (2008). “Home: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

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• We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Peace, Home

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• After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can be equally familiar to you. With time you can learn where to go for nourishment, where to hide for protection , where to turn for guidance. Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Home, House

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

  Sam Snead

  Home, Golf, Men

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• I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Book

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Optimistic, Eye

  Billy Graham (1995). “Angels”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Home, Night

  Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.124

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• It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Spiritual, Travel, Women

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Christ Legends and the Miracles of Antichrist”, p.477, Library of Alexandria

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• Every dog should have a man of his own. There is nothing like a well-behaved person around the house to spread the dog's blanket for him, or bring him his supper when he comes home man-tired at night.

  Corey Ford

  Funny, Dog, Home

  Corey Ford (1952). “Every Dog Should Have a Man: The Care and Feeding of Dog's Best Friend”

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• But God's love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might have life, so that no more would we have to die in depression, anger or pain. He loved people back to life. He would go anywhere, talk to anyone. And wherever He went, He would stop for the one-- the forgotten one, the one who was rejected, outcast, sick, even stone dead. Even a thief who was dying for his crimes on the cross next to Him. In the Kingdom of God's love there is no sinner who cannot come home.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Pain, Home

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• In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness.

  Tara Brach

  Home, And Love, Needs

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