Jane Birkin Quotes

No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

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

For me, London is and always will be home.

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.

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

I mean, I suppose when I'm in London, I'm home so I'm more comfortable.

Home is here in London and always has been.

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

Iowa is always home for me.

I don't really think of Minnesota when I think of home.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

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

England, through good times or bad, was the only place I wanted to be.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.