Maxine Kumin Quotes

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

The greatest flight I've ever flown was coming home.

Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.

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.

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.

Ireland is home. And I'd love to move home. That's always been the plan.

I love going home to Belfast on weekend breaks from training.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean

I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not from here. But going home, even just landing at Arlanda, the Stockholm airport, I think, "This is where I'm from. These people are my people."

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known

Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.

It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.

I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.