"Go home" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... week until we were close upon Christmas, and the girls, who were to be permitted to go home before the Feast, began to count the days to the holidays. I counted them too, and when anybody talked of her brother I thought of Martin Conrad, though his faithful little figure was fading away from me, and when anybody spoke of her parents ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... growl or sulk in such a position. He "accepts the situation." That is, he takes that as a thing for granted, about which there is to be no further question. Then he is in condition to make the best of it, whatever that best may be. He can sing "We won't go home till morning," or he can tell the men the story of William Fitzpatrick and the Belgian coffee-grinder, or he can say "good-night" and imagine himself among the Kentish hop-fields,—till before he knows it the hop-sticks begin walking round and round, ...
— How To Do It • Edward Everett Hale
... Mr. Spicer, will be to raise enough money on my watch to get down into Derbyshire. I must go home. If I don't, you'll have the pleasant job of taking me ...
— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing
... And the cheerful good-natured voice seemed to make Olive shrink with pain. "Sara, dear Sara, let me go home!" ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... of secession, which was rejected by ninety to forty-five, a majority of two thirds, showing the strength of the Union Party in that convention; and, if you will go back to Richmond and get that Union majority to adjourn and go home without passing the ordinance of secession, so anxious am I for the preservation of the peace of this country and to save Virginia and the other States from going out, that I will take the responsibility of evacuating Fort Sumter, and take the ...
— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 • George S. Boutwell
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