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

Yourself, Nothing, Find

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
Bill Veeck

True, Spring, Sound

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.
Carrie Brownstein

Moving, Feeling, Person

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen

Duty, Thanks, Urgent

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

God, Home, Reality

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.
Mick Jagger

Time, Plan, Left

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 your life's work in a field that you enjoy.
Thomas S. Monson

Life, Work, Enjoy

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 Europe.
Cat Stevens

Nice, Feeling, Once

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.
Mark Dayton

Health, Women, Men

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
Amelia Earhart

Good, Reason, Once

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

Home, Found, Interested

Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.
Diablo Cody

Wish, Old, Honest

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
Enoch Powell

Keep, Write, Diary

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
Lech Walesa

Happy, Democracy, Road

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike

Life, Home, Why

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
Yasser Arafat

Goal, Sometimes, Order

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 to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.
Gus Van Sant

Same, Place, Tell

I would never say never to returning to comedy.
Eric Bana

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Antonio Gaudi

Origin, Consists

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
Anna Kendrick

Family, Become, Quite

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
Ian Mcewan

Feeling, Fades, Lighter

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
Andy Goldsworthy

Fire, Working, Heat

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

Father, Everything, Keep

For President Obama, 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a stronger, more secure American economy.
Cory Booker

Home, Words, Why

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.
Jane Siberry

Music, Money, Through

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
Brit Marling

Morning, Two, Until

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.
Sean Parker

Money, Two, Bring

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.
Tom Brady

Alone, Busy, Two

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
Paul Davies

Future, Thinking, May

The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
Bob Barr

Government, Give, American

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