Reached Home Quotes

#1. It was observable, too, that ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over. All

Charles Dickens

#2. As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.

Carlo Collodi

#3. She could feel the sweat forming between her palm and the envelope she was carrying and worried that by the time she reached home, the letter would need to be rung out before she could show her father.

Jill Maguire

#4. There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Cyril Connolly

#5. This is your home." He reached up his other hand and gripped my face, pressing down hard against my cheeks.
I nodded.
"Say it!"
"I won't run," I whispered as I watched an angry tear trickling from his eye. I leaned forward and licked it away.

T.J. Klune

#6. She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking candy bar. [ ... ] She reached down [ ... ] and chose a Galaxy bar [ ... ] "I'm going home." "You didn't pay for that," Francois shouted after her. "Fuck you, Frank," she shouted back and kept going.

J.D. Robb

#7. The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.

Elaine Pagels

#8. Gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people ... dining in a good home.

M.F.K. Fisher

#9. You have reached the home and workplace of Roberto Natchez. I do not often take calls. I make no promise to return them. I have much to do. You may leave a message if you wish.

Laurence Shames

#10. They reached their familiar, circular dormitory with its five four-poster beds, and Harry, looking around, felt he was home at last

J.K. Rowling

#11. Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

Ryan Phillippe

#12. In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

Pastor Maldonado

#13. Even before we ... had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes.

Jerrie Cobb

#14. I ran out of the apartment in a rage. Mahmud followed me, and we walked home, not speaking. Shortly before we reached the door to the house, he grabbed hold of me. "You're my friend, even if you've hurt me," he said.
I embraced him and asked his forgiveness.

Rafik Schami

#15. All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

Homer

#16. I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.

Joe Mantegna

#17. I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.

Diyar Harraz

#18. Politics is an ugly picture with a pretty frame.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#19. Down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went
and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past
the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel
where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home

Homer

#20. To all those afraid to be the real you, don't be. Someone somewhere loves you for exactly who you are.

Kimberly Bracco

#21. Hence it is predicated chiefly of the virtuous; then of the pleasant; and lastly of the useful.

Thomas Aquinas

#22. As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.

David C. Downing