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returning Quotes

16 of the best book quotes about returning
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“Let us leave theories there and return to here’s hear.”
James Joyce
author
Finnegans Wake
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leaving
the present
theories
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“But far away in Africa, where the monkeys chattered in the palm-trees before they went to bed under the big yellow moon, they would say to one another, ‘I wonder what The Good Man’s doing now-over there, in the Land of White Men! Do you think he will ever come back?’ And Polynesia would squeak out from the vines, ‘I think he will- I guess he will- I hope he will!‘”
Doctor John Dolittle
Polynesia the Parrot
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″‘Never mind girl,’ she said to baby Kahu. ‘Your birth cord is here. No matter where you may go, you will always return. You will never be lost to us.‘”
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Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching after having been injured in an automobile accident, found that her Academic Bowl team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen.
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“He was too jumpy! I sent him back.”
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“He was too big! I sent him back.”
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“He was too naughty! I sent him back.”
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“ ‘Mowzer, my handsome,’ he said, for he was a courteous and well-spoken man, ‘Mowzer, my handsome, it will soon be Christmas, and no man can stand by at Christmas and see the children starve. Someone must go fishing come what may, and I think it must be me. It cannot be the young men, for they have wives and children and mothers to weep for them if they do not return. But my wife and parents are dead long since and my children are grown and gone.’ “
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“He was too grumpy! I sent him back.”
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“He was too scary! I sent him back.”
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“He was too fierce! I sent him back.”
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“He was too tall! I sent him back.”
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“If I return to the past, I might be able to set things right.”
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“So you’re back with the vestibule fish for a spell.”
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“There was an Old Man of Dundee, Who frequented the top of a tree; When disturbed by the Crows, he abruptly arose, And exclaimed, ‘I’ll return to Dundee!’ ”
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“Lassie’s come home.”

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