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Homecoming

Homecoming unites the past and the present. – Author Unknown

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. – Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000. – Leonard L. Levinson

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Homecoming means more than kings and queens. – Author Unknown

When it comes to anything that’s social, whether it’s your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport. – Bill Clinton

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. – John Ed Pearce

What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion? – Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? – David Wood

Homecoming means football, floats, and fun. – Author Unknown

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. – Edwin Denby

Homecoming means tradition. – Author Unknown

Sports is human life in microcosm. – Howard Cosell

There is only one way to cheer — hard! – Author Unknown

Football is not a contact sport. It’s a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport. – Duffy Daugherty

What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. – Cynthia Ozick

I learned three important things in college — to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. – Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952

Homecoming means more than winning a competition or a sporting event. It provides an opportunity for every component of the university to come together to celebrate as a whole. – Author Unknown

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. – Herman Melville

If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade. That’s life. – Mike Ditka