Welcome Quotes

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

~ Clare Balding

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

~ Marcus Aurelius

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

~ Helen Keller

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

~ Hal Borland

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

~ Che Guevara

Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!

~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

~ Timothy Noah

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

~ Wilson Mizner

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

~ Robert Mugabe

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

~ Natalie Martinez

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

~ Michael N. Castle

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

~ Cesar Millan

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

~ Kevin Spacey

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

~ Garrison Keillor

Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.

~ Travis Bradberry

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I feel a lot of support from the people of Penrith and the Blue Mountains and will always remember the amazing welcome home I received after the London Olympics. But more importantly, it's during hard times that Westies come together.

~ Jessica Fox

Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.

~ Jason Bateman

You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

~ Angel Cabrera

What's great about our leadership is they welcome other ideas.

~ Tom Graves

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

~ Ben Quayle

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

~ Thomas Hobbes

I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life.

~ Miranda Kerr

I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.

~ Mick Foley

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.

~ James Mcavoy

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

~ Arthur Henderson

In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'

~ Pete Hamill

I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

~ Leonard Susskind

Britain has trend-setting fashion, ground-breaking scientists, and innovative technology companies. It is also a welcome home for investors.

~ Princess Beatrice Of York

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

~ Ryan White

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

~ Tina Fey

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

~ Frances O'grady

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

~ Buddha

Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.

~ Travis Bradberry

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

~ John James Audubon

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

~ Harmony Korine

When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

~ Kristin Armstrong