Headed Home Quotes

#1. I lifted my head to look up into the changing leaves, thinking how at some point, we were all headed home. At some point, all of this, everything and everyone, became memory.

Jacqueline Woodson

#2. Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

Ovid

#3. Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

Jacob Abbott

#4. Where you come from does matter
but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

Jodi Picoult

#5. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Alice Hoffman

#6. She gathered her belongings and headed for the makeshift entrance that led into the belly of the half-destroyed AT-AT walker. It might be an ancient, rotting, rusting example of now useless military might, but to Rey, it was home.

Alan Dean Foster

#7. Sometimes you're a little too close for comfort, and I think anybody can relate to that, whether you're in college or just moving out on your own.

Leighton Meester

#8. These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

Marc Andreessen

#9. I realized if I didn't just go, I'd never go. Going was the key. It didn't matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis

Jayden Hunter

#10. Oh my God. I just got dumped by a red headed mortician in a funeral home named Crummy's, after pretending to be a circus freak at a visitation I had just crashed. I was pretty sure there'd be no bouncing back from this. -Dakota Bombay

Leslie Langtry

#11. I am uncertain whether I took my first steps on clay soil or sand, but I know I have long wondered if home is the place from which we come or the place we are headed.

Christie Purifoy

#12. Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.

Mark Nepo

#14. But since the Obsidian Order - perennial of cheap dramas and bogeymen of children's stories - had

Django Wexler

#15. Then, touching the brim of his cap, he headed for home and the day's work, unaware that it would be his last.

Truman Capote

#16. Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.

Nicholas Kristof

#17. I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

Richard Wright

#18. We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

Leo Szilard

#19. I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

Schoolboy Q

#20. Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous expansion of being. Light-headed, she felt a swooping sensation and then a quiet, as though she'd settled like a bird.

Louise Erdrich

#21. So where are you headed if you're already home?" Jane smiled. "Just 'cause you're born in a place don't make it home.

Sarah McCoy

#22. Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

Albert Brooks

#24. Then he turned and headed straight for home, but he took the long way, around the world.

Fritz Leiber

#25. Our sons and daughters are only passing through ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#26. As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

Tom Cochrane

#27. Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

Shana Alexander

#28. And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker

#29. Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

James Taylor