Homecoming traditionally celebrated in the U.S. since the 19th century originally referred to annual alumni football games at colleges and universities featuring parades, speeches and dances.
Today it has evolved into various forms: high school and college reunions, welcoming back former students, church gatherings to honor past and departed members and military events celebrating soldiers’ return from deployment.
This festive occasion symbolizes a transition from youth to adulthood especially in high schools where it’s a night of dressing up dancing and creating lasting memories with friends.
For military personnel it signifies the end of a long tour and a joyful reunion with family.
Travelers view homecoming as a time to reconnect and reset after extended periods away.
At its core homecoming is about appreciating one’s roots.
Here are some of the top quotes about homecoming.
Homecoming Quotes
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. ~ Oprah Winfrey.
Every parting is a form of death – as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~ Amelia B. Edwards.
Home’s where you go when you run out of homes. ~ John le Carré.
The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. ~ Miguel Syjuco.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ~ John 14:2.
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~ Vicki Baum.
You’re never fully dressed without a smile! ~ Annie.
Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming. ~ George McGovern.
Someday, you’ll be looking back on your life. At the memories, this is gonna be one of those nights. ~ Tim McGraw.
Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular. ~ Andy Richter.
Forget your troubles and dance! ~ Bob Marley.
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Top Homecoming Quotes
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different? ~ C.S. Lewis.
I find it scary that he knows so much about me, yet there is a part of him that I can’t fathom due to the five long years of being apart. ~ Shaine Lake
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you wish to never lose. ~ Bob Brush
Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life. ~ John Green, ‘Looking for Alaska.’
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances. ~ Maya Angelou
Was he my home, then, my homecoming? ~ André Aciman
Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon. ~ Eraldo Banovac.
Here I am, after all, welcome home, I’m yours. ~ Iris Murdoch
The whole place was dressed to the nines and we were dancing like we’re made of starlight. ~ Taylor Swift
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. ~ Vivian Greene.
Also Read: Family is Forever Quotes
Homecoming Instagram Captions
We only part to meet again. ~ John Gay.
What is the charm that makes old things so sweet? ~ Sarah Doudney
You’ve been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace. ~ David Eddings, ‘Pawn of Prophecy.’
Because we cannot repair the loss of years away, homecomings are almost always conflicted. ~ Charles Ringma
And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it’s good. ~ Phil Klay.
For there we loved, and where we love is home. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Souls tend to go back to who feels like home. ~ N.R. Hart.
You don’t go to Heaven when you die. You get there when you live! ~ Keith Anthony Blanchard
Once you’ve grown up you can’t come . ~ Peter Pan.
Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends. ~ Robert Brault.
Homecoming Captions
Homecoming means football, festivities, and friendship. ~ Unknown.
I wanna dance in the dark. We gonna light up the night. ~ Rihanna.
The surest measure of the things that really matter in life is that they generate anniversaries and reunions. ~ Robert Brault
As truth be told, homecoming never gets old. ~ Hlovate.
We may go home together, but here, we’re a house divided. ~ Unknown.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~ Elisabeth Foley.
My dear, dear Friend… in thy voice I catch the language of my former heart. ~ William Wordsworth
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~ Owens Lee Pomeroy.
These were the archives of the history of his own heart. ~ Max Nordau
Today’s veterans often come home to find that, although they’re willing to die for their country, they’re not sure how to live for it. ~ Sebastian Junger.
Awesome Homecoming Quotes
Embrace the path your loved one’s story has taken, and be part of the culture shift that acknowledges dying as part of living. ~ Carrie Chavez Hansen.
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. ~ Dave Barry
When time passes, it’s the people who knew you whom you want to see; they’re the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what’s it matter what they did to you? ~ John Irving,
We need to do something. Send some energy his way. Hands, children. ~ Moria
Deployment tears your heart in two, only reconnected at homecoming. ~ Anonymous
Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark. ~ Pierce Brown, ‘Golden Son.’
The wind taught me never to forget old friends, by blowing them back to me. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson.
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. ~ Albert Schweitzer.
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. ~ John Ed Pearce
What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts, stamped, imprinted, eternally seen. ~ Cynthia Ozick
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. ~ Martha Graham
The next best thing to the enjoyment of a good time, is the recollection of it. ~ James Lendall Basford.
Best Homecoming Quotes
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. ~ Doug Larson
Life is a party, dress like it. ~ Audrey Hepburn.
With nights like these, who needs the days.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. ~ Wayne Dyer
I was homecoming queen. I was the star of my basketball team. ~ Marla Maples
A magical thing… sweet to remember… ~ Oliver Herford
A church can be unified in one of two ways. You can freeze together, as the Church of the Frozen Chosen; or you can melt together with the fire of the Holy Spirit. ~ John Hagee.
Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight. ~ Drake.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. ~ Robert Frost.
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God. ~ CS Lewis.
There are no times like the old times, ~ they shall never be forgot! There is no place like the old place,- keep green the dear old spot! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, No Time Like the Old Time
If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance. ~ George Carlin
May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! ~ Jerry Spinelli.
Famous Homecoming Quotes
Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible. ~ Donald Wuerl.
Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory. ~ Dr. Seuss.
Notice how your memories nest, one inside another- so close-fitting that you can’t peel one free without releasing others. ~ Dr. SunWolf
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. ~ Charles Dickens.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming. ~ Paul Celan.
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment. ~ Franz Kafka.
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. Mikhail Baryshnikov
I said, ‘Oh my, what a marvelous tune.’ It was the best night, never forget how we moved. ~ Taylor Swift.
The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we. ~ Gelsey Kirkland
Everybody cut footloose. ~ Footloose, Kenny Loggins
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~ Barbara Kingsolver.
Kindred hearts no distance parts. ~ James Lendall Basford
We’re fools whether or not we dance, so we may as well dance. ~ Anonymous
Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart. ~ Anonymous
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we may as well dance. ~ Napolean Hill (Japanese Proverb).
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. ~ Charles Baudelaire
Aloha. It meant welcome and homecoming. It meant love. ~ Clemence McLaren
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ~ Leonardo da Vinci.
I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~ George Balanchine.
You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well together, there is nothing more I want. ~ André Aciman
For there we loved, and where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
It was as if some silver chime had waked a chord in his memory. ~ Florence Bone
It’s not the Olympics. It’s Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I’m part of. ~ Christa McAuliffe
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
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them. ~ John F. Kennedy.
Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress. ~ Kiera Cass.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~ Anthony Brandt.
You can buy a fancy dress, shave your legs three times and choose the perfect shade of lipstick, but what really matters is showing up and being there each and every step of the way. ~ Lauren Tamm.
In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~ Hans Nouwens.
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. ~ Charles Dickens
How powerful is the spell of home! ~ Silas X. Floyd Home
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time. ~ Ginger Rogers
It’s the prayer of the wandering, storm ~ tossed soul…When we go home again! ~ Esther M. Clark Hill
Sweet childish days, that were as long. As twenty days are now. ~ William Wordsworth
As you view matter at a subtler and subtler levels, you will realize that there is no such thing as a thing after all, but a relationship. ~ Keith Anthony Blanchard
We don’t go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that ‘homecoming.’ ~ Frank Deford.
This is like a homecoming, coming to the show and seeing all of our friends and our peers. ~ Rhonda Vincent.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~ Henry David Thoreau
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming. ~ Rumi.
I hope this collection of quotes and captions about homecoming will resonate with you.
