Introduction:
There’s a unique warmth that envelops us when we find ourselves returning to the familiar embrace of home. Whether it’s the comfort of our childhood abode or the sanctuary we’ve created for ourselves, coming home is a deeply cherished experience that resonates with people across cultures and continents. It’s a moment of respite from life’s hustle and bustle, a chance to unwind, reconnect, and find solace in the familiar sights, sounds, and scents that define our personal sanctuaries. In the words of Maya Angelou, The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. This page is a tribute to that longing, featuring a collection of poignant quotes that capture the essence of coming home.
The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I’ve grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society. Fred Funk
For me, coming to the national team is like coming home. Gerard Pique
The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it’s like coming home for me. Richard Serra
Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture. Chingy
It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now. David Attenborough
I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from; I kind of like it. Michael Angarano
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad. Malcolm X
I couldn’t be ‘Johnny’ in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be ‘Michael.’ With directing, you can’t do it by halves. There’s a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as ‘Michael,’ thrive on it. It’s lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day’s work as myself. Johnny Vegas
My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home. Christine Keeler
Seeing my dad wake up super early when the sun wasn’t even out and then coming home when the sun was set, he worked his tail off to provide for our family and did a great job. He’s the most selfless man I know, and I think if I’m half the man he is, I’ll be all right in this world. Josh Allen
Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching. Hedy Lamarr
‘Macbeth’ was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going. Alan Cumming
When I come home, I say I’m coming home to Dublin. When I’m in Dublin, I say I’m going home to New York. I’m sort of a man of two countries. Colum McCann
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in ‘American History X,’ yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined. Tim Ferriss
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that. Lizzie Andrew Borden
Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at. Rupert Sheldrake
I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us. Sarah Michelle Gellar
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: ‘I’ll do this for now, but I’m really a drummer.’ That’s what I’ll put on my passport application. Jack White
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me. David Alan Grier
I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt. Emily Ratajkowski
It’s nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London. Felicity Jones
Whenever you fly into Louisville, you see a sign that says, ‘It’s Possible Here.’ I remember my first time seeing it – I think I was coming home from the studio in L.A. – I was working on my debut album, and I just thought, ‘Wow, it is possible here.’ Bryson Tiller
It’s very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home. Linda M. Godwin
There’s been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed. Neneh Cherry
I’ve been hearing it for years now, the Knicks. Every time I come home, it’s, ‘When are you coming home to the Knicks?’ Kemba Walker
All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I’m relatively available, but not to live with. Graham Norton
Be it a trip to the dentist, getting an injection or even coming home with a good report card, my reward always had to be a book. I didn’t care much for anything else. Sonam Kapoor
You’d go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we’d see of them until we were coming home. Peter Scott
The only other thing I can really remember wanting to do besides acting was a gas station attendant. At the time, that seemed like a great job – wash the windows, pump the gas – it looks so cool coming home with black hands. There’s a natural transition, from wanting to be a gas station attendant to being an actor, right? Daniel Stern
Although I love travelling and I’ve been to some wonderful places, I always appreciate coming home. Tony Hadley
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us? Susan Sarandon
At the end of the day, coming home to that one person that you know has your back, there’s no better feeling. Jonathan Scott
The thrill of coming home has never changed. Guy Pearce
There’s nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don’t know what I would do. Corbin Bernsen
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. Sue Monk Kidd
As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them. Valerie Jarrett
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad’s car in the driveway, I would go to a friend’s house. I connected my dad being there with fear. Joe Torre
But in practice Australia – the pluralism of Australia – sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school. Thomas Keneally
I love sleeping in my son’s silly racecar bed. I love watching hours of ‘Yo Gabba Gabba.’ I love long playdates with his best friend Jack and traveling with Zev. Most of all I love coming home from work and seeing Zev run up to me saying, ‘My mommy’s home! My mommy’s home!’ Marissa Jaret Winokur
Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn’t tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began. Nick Harkaway
If I can do it, men can certainly do it. It’s interesting now to talk about equality in the home and involving men in household chores such that women don’t have to over extend themselves doing both her job and coming home and doing all the household chores. So, that kind of sharing the load is something that I have seen in my family growing up. Soha Ali Khan
Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means… nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can. Rupert Sheldrake
I’m really proud of ‘Coming Home.’ I wrote that about Eric, and I just feel like it’s very relatable for anyone who has to be away from their loved ones, you know, for long periods of time – our military, people who are working. It’s pretty special. Jessie James Decker
My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn’t have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through. Georgia May Jagger
I like coming home and sharing things I’ve tasted or seen. Dianne Reeves
I know that nobody will be satisfied with anything less than coming home with the World Cup. Angel Di Maria
I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls. Bruce Willis
In ’68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to things, looking at the pop art coming over from America. My father was an art collector, and he was coming home with these strange pieces of art that weren’t exposed in museums. At the time, it was quite revolutionary, very adventurous. Ludovico Einaudi
My wife never went to many Liverpool games but if she was out on a Saturday, she would always ask someone for the score. If we had won, she’d simply be relieved that I would be coming home in a good mood. Jamie Carragher
I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, ‘Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,’ and he would high-five me and say, ‘Way to go.’ Sara Blakely
I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It’s just so much better here than anywhere else. It’s better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it. Curtis Stone
I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that’s full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there – and that’s one of the reasons I love coming home. It’s very grounding. Nicole Trunfio
‘Mama I’m Coming Home’ is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the lyrics to that. Robert Trujillo
For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear. Jim Mattis
I’ve been a huge fan of Hal Ashby forever. And I think that the distinctive thing about ‘Coming Home’ is the love story, and how – kind of emotionally real it is, and how these two characters allow each other to see their – kind of vulnerabilities. And it’s great because it’s a love story that’s not really that cheesy, either. Jonathan Levine
Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art – Andy Warhol and all that – tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol. Corita Kent
‘Girls Go Wild’ was born out of a Joshua Tree excursion with some close friends after coming home from a long bit of touring. LP
I’d like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it’s the ’50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer. Patricia Richardson
I will tell you, I don’t miss me and Bristol fighting, but coming home to an empty house every other week, you walk in there, and it’s a reminder of the failure of the marriage. Dakota Meyer
I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home. Alan Rickman
Writing is something I should have done more of, it’s a form of coming home. Amanda Harlech
Coming home to a tidy, pulled-together space will help everything in your life feel the same way. Bobby Berk
It’s great to come home always… coming home to good south Indian meals or Andhra food is always a pleasure. Kalki Koechlin
I’m grateful for my health, glad I’m making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don’t take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It’s a gratitude list. It works. David Alan Basche
I know what it’s like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I’ve seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror. Jane Birkin
I’m a writer and director. And the movie I’ve seen a million times is ‘Coming Home,’ directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern. Jonathan Levine
It fits my ADD, so that’s good. Because I really can’t focus on anything for too long. And ‘Top Gear’s really the easiest thing to do because I’m with my pals. It’s like coming home with my friends. We’re having so much fun making the show. Adam Ferrara
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home. Rodney Dangerfield
Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home. Howard Schultz
Because I’m always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I’ve lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don’t pick up after themselves. Kellan Lutz
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle – a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own – and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip. Susan Orlean
We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost. Jeremiah Wright
When I was 5, 6 – so you know, memories aren’t that great – I remember coming home and I remember seeing all of our belongings on the street and a Salvation Army truck picking them up. We got taken to a shelter. And then we moved around a lot, finding places to stay. Richard Carmona
‘A Head Full of Ghosts’ was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. Paul G. Tremblay
There’s just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home. Ashley Jensen
When I looked into the eyes of the people who knew Laci best, I saw something I didn’t want to see: a group of people who desperately loved Laci, and who were beginning to suspect she wasn’t coming home. Amber Frey
The thing about living without a father if he’s always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn’t coming home. Stephen Rodrick
For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I’ve often entertained the idea of ending my days there. Elaine Stritch
I enjoyed coming home to Crown Heights. There was a certain order to life there. You know, Shabbos, spending time with your family, eating and being in ‘shul.’ Prayers at nighttime, prayers in the morning. Everyone knows everybody; you walk your kids everywhere. Matisyahu
I’ve always been a huge family person. Growing up with such a huge family, it was just amazing, so coming home to that is always awesome and… it makes me happy. Kendall Jenner
It is too maddening. I’ve got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I’ll have to speak three times, and then I’ll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England? John Masefield
I have to think that I think it’s always been a horse race between this administration’s temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they’re coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren’t conservative. These guys are radicals. Bradley Whitford
Just that working with Clint again is like coming home. Morgan Freeman
This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news. Rita Moreno
The way ‘Coming Home’ uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called ‘Once I Was’ by Tim Buckley. Jonathan Levine
My wife and I are raising five children, and it’s tough between two people, let alone with one that’s working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties. Sam Brownback
Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun. Edie Falco
I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school years. I lived the sacrifices, burdens, and tears. I also lived the moments of understanding, of acknowledgment, of fellowship and success. I saw my parents and grandparents coming home beaten down – and some of my friends beaten up. Donna Brazile
I was coming home from kindergarten – well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves. Ellen DeGeneres
I love coming home. Freddie Freeman
But a lot of my training can be done in Aston – a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it’s good for me because I didn’t want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are. Elvis Stojko
I recently did a play, Athol Fugard’s ‘Coming Home’ at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout – I sat at a table and didn’t have any costume changes. Following one character’s arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset. Colman Domingo
Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I’m coming home. Itzhak Perlman
Sometimes I can’t think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it’s an entire yoga session in one strum, you know? Jake Shimabukuro
I didn’t even watch the soaps when I was in them because it’s like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle – I was never a great lover of watching myself act. Ross Kemp
Writing ‘Dog Stars’ was coming home. My spirit just sang. It’s what I wanted to do my whole life. Peter Heller
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Shania Twain. I would always go sing the song ‘Honey I’m Home.’ I was, like, 12, and I’m singing about coming home from work and PMS and stuff. Kirstin Maldonado
Coming home for me isn’t, like, one family dinner. It’s about am I gonna see 50 relatives, or am I gonna see 85? Stephen Karam
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. Pam Brown
I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can’t wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband. Julianna Margulies