Returning Quotes

357 quotes by 309 authors

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. — Ian Mcewan
I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for… — Thomas S. Monson
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. — Robert Morgan
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,… — Max Muller
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. — Enoch Powell
I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned… — Gus Van Sant
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author,… — Jose Saramago
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… — John Shadegg
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of… — Cat Stevens
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could. — Charles R. Swindoll
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. — John Updike
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. — Bill Veeck
I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy. — Lech Walesa
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… — Sela Ward
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically… — Daniel Pennac
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl
I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. — William Shakespeare
...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else. — Rebecca Solnit
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… — Ian Caldwell
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… — Victor Hugo

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