George Eliot Quotes

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.

I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.

I was born in England, but India is the only place I feel at home.

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.

I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

If home is where the heart is, then Belize is my home.

I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.