return quotes

Foras therain cometh down, and thesnow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and makethit bring forthand bud, that it maygiveseedtothe sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 55:10^11.

Theyare our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  On railway termini. Howards End, ch.2.

I came through and I shall return.

- Douglas MacArthur
  On reaching  Australia, having broken through  Japanese lines en route from Corregidor, 20 Mar. Reported in the NewYork Times, 21 Mar.

Dark and terrible beyond any season within my remembrance of political affairs was the day of their flight.Far darkerand moreterrible will be the dayof their return.

-1st Baron
On the defeat of the Tory Government, House of Commons, 20 Sep.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

-Jonathan Swift
  ATale of aTub,'Epistle Dedicatory'.