“Our mother is coming home and we are so grateful and so thankful that this is happening.”

“We have to thank our mother Eve. Without her, we wouldn't be here enjoying life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“So we arrived, and planted our flag at the geographical South Pole. Thanks be to God!”

Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the South Pole

“The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.”

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church

“You'd be so nice to come home to
You'd be so nice by the fire…”

Cole Porter (1891–1964) American composer and songwriter

“Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

“You'd be so nice,
You'd be paradise
To come home to and love.”

Cole Porter (1891–1964) American composer and songwriter

“Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.”

Marilynne Robinson Home

“Father, dear father, come home with me now!
The clock in the steeple strikes three;
The house is so lonely, the hours are so long
For poor weeping mother and me.
Yes, we are alone, poor Benny is dead,
And gone with the angels of light;
And these were the very last words that he said,
"I want to kiss Papa good night."”

Henry Clay Work (1832–1884) American composer and songwriter

“Oftentimes when our falling and our wretchedness is shewed us, we are so sore adread, and so greatly ashamed of our self, that scarcely we find where we may hold us. But then willeth not our courteous Mother that we flee away, for Him were nothing lother.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress