(15 quotes found)
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Robert Frost
“Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.”
Carol Nelson
“The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home”
Edgar Watson Howe
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
Carson McCullers
“It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.”
Newt Gingrich
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
Maya Angelou
“Ben was a little different. Sometimes you wonder about homesickness, but he's really handled it well -- a lot better than I would have if I was his age. The players have accepted him. His work ethic is outstanding.”
Tommy Tuberville
“You don't get homesick here, ... It's like living at home.”
Dave Kelly
“When you're this far away, winning makes up a lot. Winning makes homesickness not that bad.”
Shawn Witherspoon
“I only stayed there for one year though, because I got homesick,”
Jose Alvarado
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