Joseph Monninger Quotes

Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Knox County is home. I love it here, and I love the people.

Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.

There's a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere.

Home is here in London and always has been.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

It feels great just finally knowing where I'm going and have some place to call home. And I'm glad it's Boston.

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together with my brother the place we're in becomes home.

I had many years where I just worked from film to film to film. And then all of a sudden I went: "Where did I put my bags down? Where's my little place I call home?"

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

There is no house like the house of belonging.