“Destiny doesn't do home visits… you have to go for it yourself.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven
Source: The Prisoner of Heaven
“Go home, Johann — Walpurgis nacht doesn't concern Englishmen.”
— Bram Stoker, book Dracula's Guest
Jonathan Harker
Dracula's Guest (1914)
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Mary Howitt (1799–1888) English poet, and author
Old England is our Home, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1930)
James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer
Source: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) Irish-American author and playwright
"The Ten Worst Things about a Man"
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)
“Going to the mountains is going home.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
"In the Sierra Forests", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 3 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated July 1875, published 3 August 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 79
1870s
Variant: Going to the woods is going home.
“I'm concerned it's going to become institutionalized.”
Olympia Snowe (1947) United States Senator from Maine
As quoted in "Can Olympia Snowe Change Washington?", interview by Kathleen Fleury and Virginia M. Wright, in Downeast magazine (October 2014).
Context: I understand that the hyper-partisanship in Washington makes people feel alienated. They're frustrated and they're angry, and they should be, but they can do something about it. We've got to turn it around. I'm concerned it's going to become institutionalized. … Make candidates accountable for making government work. That should be a debate question: What are you going to do to make government work? You can't sit on your hands and say, "No, I want it 100% my way." I don't know how this evolved, but I find it irrational — you don't demand that in any other sphere of life. The country is now in a virtual standstill. We can't begin to measure the reverberation of all this legislative neglect five, six, or whatever years into the future.
