62 Homecoming Quotes to Celebrate Connection
Homecoming is about togetherness.
Sometimes, it means sharing old stories and meeting new faces.
Sometimes, it’s just about being back where you belong.
These homecoming quotes can help bring out the joy and the meaning of returning.
They’re here to remind us that coming home is always something special.
Short Homecoming Quotes
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” — Robert Frost
“Home is not a place—it’s a feeling.” — Cecelia Ahern
“Home’s where you go when you run out of homes.” — John le Carré
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.” — Charles Dickens
“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.” — Cindy Ross
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When time passes, it’s the people who knew you whom you want to see.” — John Irving
“Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Were I with thee… Might I but moor—Tonight—In thee!” — Emily Dickinson
“The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the journey.” — Rumi
“You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” — Maya Angelou
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” — Mother Teresa
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” — Herman Melville
“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.” — Seneca the Younger
“I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.” — Andrew Sullivan
“Homecoming unites the past and the present.” — Henry Rollins
“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” — Wendy Wunder
“Home is where one starts from.” — T.S. Eliot
“You can go other places, all right—you can live on the other side of the world, but you can’t ever leave home.” — Sue Monk Kidd
“You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.” — Henning Mankell
“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.” — Brad Meltzer
“Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.” — Edie Falco
“The thrill of coming home has never changed.” — Guy Pearce
“Open your heart and your home… let it be a haven for the homeless.” — Thomas S. Monson
“Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.” — Cecelia Ahern
“Homecomings are the necessary rituals to highlight the beauty of our absence and presence.” — Rupi Kaur
“Homecoming is a single word, and we use it to explain a thousand different moments of life.” — Jason F. Wright
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place… we can find again only by going back there.” — Pascal Mercier
“The joy of meeting and the sorrow of separation… we should welcome these gifts.” — Maria Montessori
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. When you come home, bring that beauty with you.” — Rumi
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” — James Baldwin
“Sometimes you have to travel back in time… in order to love someone.” — Jodi Picoult
“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.” — Christian Morgenstern
“Home is the nicest word there is.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.” — Vernon Baker
“Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.” — Dalai Lama
“Home is the starting place of love, hope and dreams.” — Unknown
“Home is where one is most deeply understood.” — William Paul Young
“Home is where the heart is, and my heart is always with you.” — E.E. Cummings
“Home is where you hang your memories, not just your hat.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.” — Billy Sunday
“Home is where the soul feels its worth.” — Philip Yancey
“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” — Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes.” — Geoff Dyer
“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.” — Margaret Barber
“Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.” — George McGovern
“It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.” — Barbara Kingsolver
“There is no feeling like coming home after danger.” — Stephen King
“Homecoming never gets old.” — Hlovate
“The footpath curves right, and my home’s roof ridge is visible through the coconut fronds… Is this what differentiates a home from a house—the life in the former?” — Merlin Franco
“Home may be where the heart is but it’s no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.” — Walker Percy
“Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart.” — Thomas S. Monson
“Homecoming is not just about returning, but remembering who you are.” — Jason F. Wright
“Home is where you can say anything you please, because nobody pays any attention to you anyway.” — Joe Moore
“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to.” — Charles Dickens
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” — Maya Angelou
“Home is where you can be silent and still be heard.” — Denis Waitley
“Home is where the heart can rest.” — Florence Nightingale
“Home is the shelter from all storms.” — William J. Bennett
“Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.” — Channing Pollock
“Home is where you can be yourself and still be loved.” — Leo Buscaglia
“Coming home is the most beautiful thing.” — Unknown
“Seek home for rest, for home is best.” — Thomas Tusser
“When we go home again!” — Esther M. Clark Hill
