Return Visit Quotes

#1. So might I suggest at your earliest convenience that you pay a visit to the Okins Funeral Salon to make arrangements?"
"Why'd I wanna do that?" she says so damn snippy.
"Because on my return visit you can count on my beatin' the ever-lovin' shit outta you with a rusty shovel. Twice.

Lesley Kagen

#2. If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return visit at the end. They may be more inclined to accept your offer, rather than having to pack the piece up and take it home.

Judith Miller

#3. In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

John Sergeant Wise

#4. The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents' house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?

Robert Silverberg

#7. No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.

Nico Rosberg

#8. All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

H.L. Mencken

#9. Madness - that old, dear friend of mine - has come home for a visit. And I welcome its return with open arms.

Heather Lyons

#10. 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 Kastner

#11. It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

Ivan Doig

#12. shade of their ancestors' houses of bones; and their ancestors may return the favor of a visit: coffins sometimes float in the streets during bad floods.

Jimmy Fox

#13. Is there a purpose to this visit, or may I return to my book?

Sarah J. Maas

#14. Nothing here is as it seems;
Dreams are truths, and truths are dreams.
Closed your ears to loved ones' cries;
Die if you believe your eyes.
Bind with ropes your flesh and blood,
And let your guide be made of wood.

Emily Rodda

#15. I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Michael J. Fox

#16. I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.

Benjamin Martin

#17. All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river ... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

Virgil

#18. If I had the authority to pick and choose who gets to know Christ as Savior, that would make me God. Thank the one true God that I am not.

Braden Pedersen

#19. A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes.

Elijah Muhammad

#20. The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

John Milton

#21. If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

William H Gass