Quotes about return

Luther Burbank -

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Oscar Isaac -

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

Floyd Skloot -

When memories fade, can one ever really return home?

Bob Feller -

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Taslima Nasrin -

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

I have to return some videotapes

Thomas Wolfe -

You can't go home again

Dan Harmon -

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

Aniruddha Sastikar -

We guarantee rude emptiness for ourselves; later in life, when we treat children as - "empty buckets", today.

Mary Oliver - A Thousand Mornings

And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real

Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

Sarah Addison Allen - The Girl Who Chased the Moon

A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter.

Jaide Fox - His Wicked Ways

(Darcy) "Why do you suppose she decided to come back…after all this time, I mean?"(Nick) "The barmaid?""Bronte""If I were to hazard a guess, I would suppose her mother finally convinced her she was on her deathbed.""I suppose, but since she's been on her deathbed for the past ten years that I know of. I'm thinking Bronte probably wouldn't fall for it."

George Washington -

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

Mina Marial Nicoli - The Magic of Avalon Eyrelin

May the light be in you forever,May the sun love you and keep you,May the dream make you awaken.For the stars love to shine upon you, And the heavens cry for your loss.May goodness and love flow through you once more,Drink of the light and the love here,Find that we all need you,May your spirit come back across.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

You can always return to seek God.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.

Deyth Banger -

I can always win in Tic Tac toe for example one strategy can be used serveral times and one moment he will find that I'm using this strategy and in the other day he will forgot aobut this and I just repeat the same - But from this point of view it's kind a useless and taking time. I want to find new path ways, the same is with chess I can win always the same way but one moment it come the rule or the thought - hey I want this to return and I will give you to return. I hate this moment it's kind

Iain Thomas -

Everyone changes so slowly, they don't even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that's supposed to already be here. But home is a time. Not just a place.

Christie Purifoy - Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons

Homecoming is a single word, and we use it to describe a single event. But true homecoming requires more time. It seems to be a process rather than a moment. Perhaps we come home the way the earth comes home to the sun. It could be that homecoming is always a return and our understanding of home deepens with each encounter.

Grigoris Deoudis -

When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.

Robin Hobb - Fool's Assassin

He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

Munia Khan -

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Return to God.

Lillian Gordy Carter -

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.So does gossip.

Dennis Chavez -

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

Khalil Gibran -

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Jim George -

Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

T.F. Hodge -

It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to 'pop the oil'; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns.

Edwidge Danticat - The Farming of Bones

Those who die young, they are cheated,” she said. “Not cheated out of life, because life is a penance, but the young, they’re cheated because they don’t know it’s coming. They don’t have time to move closer, to return home. When you know you’re going to die, you try to be near the bones of your own people. You don’t even think you have bones when you’re young, even when you break them, you don’t believe you have them. But when you’re old, they start reminding you they’re there. They start turnin

Robin Hobb - Fool's Errand

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

Julie Otsuka - The Buddha in the Attic

It would be autumn, and our fathers would be out threshing in the fields. We would walk through the mulberry groves, past the big loquat tree and the old lotus pond, where we used to catch tadpoles in the spring. Our dogs would come running up to us. Our neighbours would wave. Our mothers would be sitting by the well with their sleeves tied up, washing the evening's rice. And when they saw us they would just stand up and stare. "Little girl," they would say to us, "where in the world have you be

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.

Simone Weil -

It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.

Clint Van Winkle - Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.

Robert M. Drake - Beautiful Chaos

Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.

Isabel Aanya Leigh -

Forgive the beggar attention is all that’s seekedand in return I never givethis will hitthis will turn around and it will bite backI know I believe that this is just another stepanother mistake that will teachso, forgive that asker of questionsand engross yourself in her mistakesand runfast never come backunderstand there’s nothing morenothingnot once morenot everforgivewalk away and live on.

Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy - What You Seek Is Seeking You

Every hour, stop and ask: Am I really present in this moment? If not, what are my thoughts focused on? Doing this often will help you return to the present moment.

S.K. Tremayne -

We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.

Tahir Shah - In Search of King Solomon's Mines

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

Manoj Arora - Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always

The only way to help someone is when you know they cannot return you back.Anything else is just business.

Masaru Emoto - Secret Life of Water

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen -

If you lend the present, it will never be returned.

J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.He frowned."I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

Jessica Khoury - The Forbidden Wish

Your father is waiting, so fly up that mountain and through the alomb. Find Nardukha and tell him I have upheld my end of the bargain. Now it is his turn.”He stares at me, a dangerous light in his eye, and then his gaze travels beyond me, in the direction of the funeral. My hand moves to his muscled forearm, and I squeeze it

Debasish Mridha -

The things we love are secretly loving us in return.

Munia Khan -

A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way.

Mauricio Rosencof -

But you know, as I do, that the storm will passAnd that the implacable sun doesn't simply stopWhen obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud,Which is why I know I'll return to your house-On a Sunday that's there on the calendar-And laugh with you over a glass of grappa.

LaShawnda Jones -

Solitude is good for a time, but not for all time. Don’t forget to come back and embrace a community. Build one, if you must. Don’t neglect the sharing of yourself. Even those parts that are not so clean have value. In fact, the best lessons you have to offer in life come from your struggles in the darkness and grit of life.

Raphael Zernoff -

The now reality is our only home, where everything already is. There is no other home we came from, and we might think we shall return to.

Virgil -

Time is flying never to return.

Donna Shalala -

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.

Romesh Gunesekera -

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

Robert M. Pirsig -

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Isabel Yosito -

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

Marcus Tullius Cicero -

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Walter Gropius -

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.

Patricia Hewitt -

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

Mark Pryor -

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Maria Edgeworth -

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Sr.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Erich Kästner -

It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.)

George R.R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

Daniel Willey -

A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return.

John Fowles - The Magus

Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.

David Almond - Skellig

She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they became cold and short and dark. Living things hid themselves away. Spring came when she was released and made her slow way up to the world again. The world became brighter and bolder in order to welcome her back. It began to be filled with warmth and light. The animals dared to wake, they dared to have

Munia Khan -

The land is always there...it is you who has to return

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

Teamwork is great for all, but result is greater for some.