Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.
As he predicted the Congressman was there long after the Secretary.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.
I started to walk the halls of HUD. I went into every office and every cubicle. I met a lot of people. I soon realized that they all realized that they were staying and I was going. It’s just that none of us knew when.
I've never really felt at home in L.A. I've only been here to work, and then I immediately go back to New York.
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
I enjoyed my time in Houston but it was short-lived and it really didn't make a huge impression on my life.
You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.
I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.
I can't stay long; I'm in between meals.
I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.
A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.
The world's an Inn; and I her guest.
We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a herd of bodies/until one becomes home./Moments sweep past. The grass bends/then learns again to stand.
This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home
We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!
I had the opportunity to come to the United States of America as an exchange student, so I had to come for four months, work, and then go back.
May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.