Coming Home Quotes - Page 6

• The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Husband, Home, Doctors

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• He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.

  Tom Waits

  Wrestling, Home, Thinking

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• You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

  Thomas Harris

  Dog, Home, Cat

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.36, Penguin

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• I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Intention, Expecting

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• I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Lucky to have been where I have been Lucky to be coming home again

  Jason Mraz

  Home, My Best Friend, Lucky

  Song: Lucky, 2008

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• Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Home, Shadow

  Joanne Harris (2007). “The lollipop shoes”, Doubleday UK

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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. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Night

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• If she just wanted to come home at night to eye candy with good hair, I could probably be that reasonably well.

  Richelle Mead

  Home, Eye, Night

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• When you’ve found the right one - when you see him, when you’re with him - you’ll feel like you’re coming home.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Home, Like You, Found

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2014). “Now I'll Tell You Everything”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean

  Hugh Howey

  Home, Clean

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• When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Blessed, Home

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.86

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• If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. . . . And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

  William H. McRaven

  Graduation, Encouragement, Morning

  Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.

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• He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Alive, Want

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• Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Home, Heartache, Arms

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• The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.

  Emily Bronte

  Children, Struggle, Home

  Emily Bronte (2014). “Wuthering Heights”, p.31, Race Point Publishing

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• How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Home, Heart, Night

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.289, Booklassic

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• Ever come home and found your room messed up? Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "clean" it, and suddenly you can't find anything? And even if nothing is missing, you get that creepy feeling like somebody's been looking through your private stuff and dusting everything with lemon furniture polish?

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Home, Missing

  "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Girl, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup.

  Groucho Marx

  Home, Opportunity, Play

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• Try it on." "It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled. "It has a slit up the thigh." His smile depened. "Zip it up?" Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, i will track Scott down, and when i find him, it won't be pretty.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Eye, Hard Times

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• I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???

  Louise Rennison

  Stupid, Home, Cows

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• Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured...it was like coming home.

  Richelle Mead

  Home, Long

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1369, Penguin

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• Come here. I need to hold on to you." She felt the same way. And when there was no distance between them, it was like coming home.

  J.R. Ward

  Distance, Home, Needs

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Envy: Number 3 in series”, p.194, Hachette UK

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• You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, Home, Winning

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• For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Home, Cities, Lasts

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