Quotes about Arrival
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
— Alice Walker
He onward came; far off his coming shone.
— John Milton
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
— John Piper
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
— Mark Twain
He arrived, looked me over with a smiling and impudent curiosity; said he had come for me, and informed me that he was a page. Go 'long, I said; you ain't more than a paragraph.
— Mark Twain
No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
— William Saroyan
then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Collis, unaware that he was without a wedding garment, heralded his arrival with: I reckon I'm late--the beyed has flown.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Maria had been expecting a visitor, for the broom had fallen only an hour earlier, which always meant company was coming.
— Alice Hoffman
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.
— Anonymous
The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
— Anonymous
Kathryn didn't know it, but Matthias had, months before, made the same list she gave him. The minute she started rattling in off in panic to keep him at bay, he knew they thought ale. Everyone in town knew what Calvada lacked. It was still lite more than a rough-and-tumble mining camp, but he had a vision of what it could become. City had lit the fire. Kathryns arrival fanned the flame.
— Francine Rivers