Quotes about welcome
Michael D. Higgins -
I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.
Lance Morrow -
As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Kristin Armstrong -
When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.
Harmony Korine -
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
Travis Bradberry -
Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.
John James Audubon -
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring.
Debasish Mridha -
Clouds can never hide the sun forever so don't complain about clouds but never forget to welcome the sun.
Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
Ted Cruz -
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
Shimon Peres -
My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
Yakov Smirnoff -
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Bruce Feiler -
I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.
Harriet Tubman -
I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Gemma Malley - The Declaration
Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.
Grantly Dick-Read -
What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?
A.D. Posey -
The world is blessed to welcome you.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
May we greet each other with a smile, hug and speak kind words.
Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Why at the beginning of things is there always light? Dorrigo Evans' earliest memories were of sun flooding a church hall in which he sat with his mother and grandmother. A wooden church hall. Blinding light and him toddling back and forth, in and out of its transcendent welcome, into the arms of women. Women who loved him. Like entering the sea and returning to the beach. Over and over.
Virginia Alison -
Love does not broadcast its arrival, it just creeps up and envelops your soul when you least expect it. It is up to you whether you welcome or fight it, but one thing is for sure...It will get you in the end...
Laura C. Monteiro - Mariah Makes a Friend
It only takes one cat – or person – to make another feel welcome and special.
Vanna Bonta - Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
There is no hospitality like understanding.
Sarah Cross - Kill Me Softly
You know me. I'll hurt you. Welcome home.
Ashay Abbhi - Chronicles of Urban Nomads
There was a spring in his carefully measured step. He opened the door and let the sunlight in, as if opening himself up, letting pent-up energy out and, letting the world enter inside- letting the light illuminate him. It was strange to see him like that, a tad amusing perhaps. He had thought it over. He had decided to welcome me with happiness and joy and to present his best self to me, whenever I decide to come.
Cari Quinn - Seduced
It always came down to his freaking pride.
Patti Digh - and Live Intentionally
Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.
Diane Wolkstein - First Love Stories: From Isis and Osiris to Tristan and Iseult
With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.
Kester Brewin -
Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.
Doug Cooper - Outside In
The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.
Claire Cross - Double Trouble
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Max Eastman - The Sense of Humor
A smile is the universal welcome.
Jean Vanier - Community And Growth
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing.
Christine Pohl -
As a way of life, an act of love, an expression of faith, our hospitality reflects and anticipates God's welcome. Simultaneously costly and wonderfully rewarding, hospitality often involves small deaths and little resurrections. By God's grace we can grow more willing, more eager, to open the door to a needy neighbor, a weary sister or brother, a stranger in distress. Perhaps as we open that door more regularly, we will grow increasingly sensitive to the quiet knock of angels. In the midst of a
Christopher Moore -
Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.
Christina Engela - Black Sunrise
As you may follow, they are an extremely hostile species (i.e. there is no word for ‘welcome’ in the Ruminarii language.) In four short centuries they had managed to lay waste to almost a thousand star systems, enslaving their populations and stripping them of all they wanted.
Richard Llewellyn - How Green Was My Valley
What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.
Deyth Banger -
Ignorance,... wow sounds like you are now in it... so you came out here... so welcome to my club ignored!
Munia Khan -
Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories
Ronnie McBrayer - Following Jesus
Being a “friend of sinners” is an accusation that Christians should wear as a badge of honor, for nothing could honor Jesus more, and nothing is more revealing of who God actually is.
Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea
Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though he would not admit to himself that he was sad. As night fell he still lingered in the streets, reluctant to go back to the inn. He heard a man and a girl talking together merrily as they came down the street past him towards the town square, and all at once he turned, for he knew the man's voice.He followed and caught up with the pair, coming up beside them in the late twilight lit only by distant
Sandeep N Tripathi -
Moment by moment, in life's winter, life frozeEchoing a history of blues, a milestone roseFrom A Farewell A welcome
Mick Foley -
I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.
Miranda Kerr -
I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life.
Tom Graves -
What's great about our leadership is they welcome other ideas.
Thomas Hobbes -
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Ben Quayle -
I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.
Angel Cabrera -
You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.
Travis Bradberry -
Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Jessica Fox -
I feel a lot of support from the people of Penrith and the Blue Mountains and will always remember the amazing welcome home I received after the London Olympics. But more importantly, it's during hard times that Westies come together.
Garrison Keillor -
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Jason Bateman -
Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Arthur Henderson -
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
Pete Hamill -
In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'
James McAvoy -
The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.
Hal Borland -
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Timothy Noah -
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
Wilson Mizner -
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Robert Mugabe -
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago -
Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!
Che Guevara -
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Elizabeth I -
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Tina Fey -
I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.
Buddha -
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
Frances O'Grady -
There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
Ryan White -
I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
Leonard Susskind -
I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
Princess Beatrice of York -
Britain has trend-setting fashion, ground-breaking scientists, and innovative technology companies. It is also a welcome home for investors.
Michael N. Castle -
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Cesar Millan -
I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.
Kevin Spacey -
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
Natalie Martinez -
I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
Tom Hodgkinson -
Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with.
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Sr.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Lord Byron -
Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.
Irish Rhyme -
Come in the evening come in the morning Come when expected come without warning Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you And the oftener you come the more we'll adore you.
Walter Scott -
Welcome as the flowers in May.
George Santayana -
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
John F. Kerry -
President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.
Christina Aguilera -
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
Clare Balding -
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.
Marcus Aurelius -
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Helen Keller -
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Craig Sager -
So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, intruding on their space when you ask them questions; maybe they don't want to deal with you at the time. And now, it's, 'Hey, welcome, where's Craig?' Whereas, now, it's kind of different.
Buzz Aldrin -
Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.
Margaret J. Wheatley -
Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.