Return Quotes

Solitude is good for a time, but not for all time. Don’t forget to come back and embrace a community. Build one, if you must. Don’t neglect the sharing of yourself. Even those parts that are not so clean have value. In fact, the best lessons you have to offer in life come from your struggles in the darkness and grit of life.

~ Lashawnda Jones

True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The now reality is our only home, where everything already is. There is no other home we came from, and we might think we shall return to.

~ Raphael Zernoff

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.

~ Robert M. Drake

Forgive the beggar attention is all that’s seekedand in return I never givethis will hitthis will turn around and it will bite backI know I believe that this is just another stepanother mistake that will teachso, forgive that asker of questionsand engross yourself in her mistakesand runfast never come backunderstand there’s nothing morenothingnot once morenot everforgivewalk away and live on.

~ Isabel Aanya Leigh

Those who die young, they are cheated,” she said. “Not cheated out of life, because life is a penance, but the young, they’re cheated because they don’t know it’s coming. They don’t have time to move closer, to return home. When you know you’re going to die, you try to be near the bones of your own people. You don’t even think you have bones when you’re young, even when you break them, you don’t believe you have them. But when you’re old, they start reminding you they’re there. They start turning to dust on you, even as you’re walking here and there, going from place to place. And this is when you crave to be near the bones of your own people. My children never felt this. They had to look death in the face, even before they knew what it was. Just like you did, no?

~ Edwidge Danticat

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

~ Robin Hobb

It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.

~ Simone Weil

I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.

~ Clint Van Winkle

The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to 'pop the oil'; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns.

~ T.f. Hodge

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

~ Criss Jami

But you know, as I do, that the storm will passAnd that the implacable sun doesn't simply stopWhen obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud,Which is why I know I'll return to your house-On a Sunday that's there on the calendar-And laugh with you over a glass of grappa.

~ Mauricio Rosencof

If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The things we love are secretly loving us in return.

~ Debasish Mridha

A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way.

~ Munia Khan

Your father is waiting, so fly up that mountain and through the alomb. Find Nardukha and tell him I have upheld my end of the bargain. Now it is his turn.”He stares at me, a dangerous light in his eye, and then his gaze travels beyond me, in the direction of the funeral. My hand moves to his muscled forearm, and I squeeze it

~ Jessica Khoury

If you lend the present, it will never be returned.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.

~ John Fowles

A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return.

~ Daniel Willey

It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.)

~ Erich Kästner

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

~ George R.r. Martin

Teamwork is great for all, but result is greater for some.

~ Toba Beta

She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they became cold and short and dark. Living things hid themselves away. Spring came when she was released and made her slow way up to the world again. The world became brighter and bolder in order to welcome her back. It began to be filled with warmth and light. The animals dared to wake, they dared to have their young. Plants dared to send out buds and shoots. Life dared to come back.

~ David Almond

Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God.

~ Jim George

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.So does gossip.

~ Vera Nazarian

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

~ Lillian Gordy Carter

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

~ Dennis Chavez

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

~ Khalil Gibran

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

~ Maria Edgeworth

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

~ Romesh Gunesekera

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Time is flying never to return.

~ Virgil

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

~ Isabel Yosito

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.

~ Walter Gropius

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

~ Patricia Hewitt

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

~ Mark Pryor