Returning Quotes

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. (Nelson Mandela)
Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. View quote
James Buchanan
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, 'Are you full inside' Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, 'I am quite full inside that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.' View quote
Charles Lamb
Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country. View quote
Pierre Loti
The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track. View quote
Edwin Moses
And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore. View quote
Sela Ward
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. View quote
Steve Buyer
First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people. View quote
Tea Leoni
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. View quote
John Updike
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade. (John Wesley)
Sweet April-time - O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers. View quote
Dinah Craik
Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. View quote
Camille Paglia
The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior. View quote
Jerry Falwell
Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I 've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning Alas the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. View quote
William Wordsworth
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean. View quote
Victor Hugo
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished. View quote
William Baziotes
I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. View quote
William Shakespeare
The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter's hand. "Not bad,” I said. "Keep it up! (Rick Riordan)
Bayle turned to watch the drifting mists along the shore and thought: In three days we have eaten with this Captain four times, talked with him about navigation, his three families, his collection of miniature clay idols, and have all decided he is a deep and impressive, if somewhat absentminded man. Yes, save I take this same ship returning, I may never see him again. Strange are the ways of travel. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them. View quote
Jennifer Egan
I think I'm going back To the things I learned so well In my youth. I think I'm returning to The days when I was young enough To know the truth. View quote
Carole King
I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did. View quote
Lisa Unger