Top 35 Homeward Quotes
#1. The near dark streets where Friday night's business began to accomplish itself, strolling couples, arm in arm, girls bright as just pricked flowers, halfdrunk belligerent men herded homeward by fierce women with bitter persecuted faces ...
William Gay
#3. I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
Pat Conroy
#4. Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.
Mark Twain
#5. A homeward-bounder is a chance for total reinvention, Mr. Nilssen," he said at last. "Find a nugget, and a man can buy his own life. That kind of promise isn't offered in the civil world.
Eleanor Catton
#6. I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
James Cameron
#7. To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.
Leon Uris
#8. She drove on into the night, homeward, her hair weeping tiny slow streams down her back.
Celeste Ng
#9. The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Thomas Gray
#11. And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
Homer
#12. Do you know that hobo is an acronym for Homeward Bound?
Miriam Toews
#13. Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love
Leonard Cohen
#14. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
Hermann Hesse
#15. My mother had brought me here when I was fifteen, on a Sunday after I'd read Look Homeward, Angel for the first time. She'd loved the novel, memorizing whole paragraphs, and, of course, naming me after the book's main character. It is a novel you have to read as a young person or you don't get it.
Ron Rash
#16. Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.
Max Lucado
#17. Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.
John Milton
#18. The stars are but tears
shed by a miriad
of unrequited dreams;
each sparks with fire
and guides its light homeward
when a dream is revealed
Basith
#19. Do not enforce the tired wolf
Dragging his infected wound homeward
To sit tonight with the warm children
Naming the pretty kings of France.
John Crowe Ransom
#21. I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'
Maya Angelou
#22. David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision
James Hollis
#23. All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.
Jacqueline Carey
#24. The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.
John Ross Macduff
#25. I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#27. The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.
Pat Conroy
#28. A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly ... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.
Edmund Burke
#29. I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.
Nancy E. Turner
#30. Long is the journey homeward, Weary and worn are we. Oh, if I fall behind, my love, Will you look back for?
Sofia Samatar
#31. 'Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you.
Steven Hall
#32. She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
Robert Southey
#33. If you feel the undertow of depression slowly pulling you out into the depths, don't rage at the heavens; don't wear yourself out trying to recover. Wait on God, rest in Him, and let Him pull your spirit homeward. All the tides of this world move toward Him.
David Jeremiah
#34. you - you never gallop a horse homeward. They get all excited, thinking, 'Woohoo, I'm about to get fed!' and then they bolt for home and you can't control them. Always walk a horse home.
Brianna Karp
#35. The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart ... To go alone ... into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth
it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.
Thomas Wolfe
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