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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. -- John Updike
A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home. -- John Shadegg
Life is going forth; death is returning home. -- Laozi
Awareness returning home is awareness being enfolded by what it knows. -- John de Ruiter
For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home. -- Phil Klay
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. -- Sun Tzu
I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home. -- Edna Walling
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. -- James Buchanan
Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us. -- Larry Heinemann
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. -- Pierre Loti
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it. -- John Shadegg
Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak. -- William Carlos Williams
She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home. -- Lauren Kate
Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify and strengthen our bodies and minds. Like recharging the batteries, even after returning home we will be able to continue our meditation and japa. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
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. -- Sela Ward
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home. -- Georg Solti
The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along. -- Ian Caldwell
My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on compassionate leave. As a result, my mother had to get work, as a nurse, and at seven the RAF put me into a boarding school and ex-orphanage called the Royal Wolverhampton School. -- Eric Idle
She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean? -- Stacy Hawkins Adams
For many of the brave men and women who have fought on the front lines, returning home means trying to navigate a complicated and bureaucratic Veterans Administration benefits system. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return. -- Yo-Yo Ma
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. -- Deng Xiaoping
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. -- Paddy Ashdown
All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home. -- Taslima Nasrin
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home. -- J. C. Watts
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. -- John Thorn
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. -- Bob Feller
Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits. -- Cindy Ross
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends. -- Alice Morse Earle
I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving. -- Sly Stone
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability. -- Buzz Aldrin
Every hero must return home. Starks to Winterfell. Harry to Privet Drive. Luke Skywalker to Tattoine. Katniss to District twelve. The fun is in seeing how they return. -- Pierce Brown
Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward. -- Peter Capaldi
So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only. -- Peter Jurasik
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home. -- Taslima Nasrin
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. -- Michael D. Higgins
In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education. -- Denise Juneau
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home. -- Aleksandar Hemon
The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Returning to whereIt used to see blossoms,My mind, changed,Will stay on at Yoshino...Home now, and see anew. -- Saigy?
For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home. -- Martha M. Moravec
That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases. -- Max Muller

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