Leon Uris Quotes

One returns to the place one came from.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

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.

Where are we really going? Always home.

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

To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

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.

He traveled in order to come home.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.

The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.

I always love going home anyway; it's where my roots are. I always like to go back. It's a good reminder of where I started and the journey that I still have to go on to get where I want to be.

So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

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

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

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

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.