Anderson Varejao Quotes

I grew up without a television, so when I went to L.A., it was sort of, you know, a lot to take in, but it actually suited me more than where I was from, so I sort of had that 'home away from home' feeling, and L.A. is definitely home now.

The Lakers had been home to me, unlike the home I had grown up and felt apart from.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

I moved to the States from London when I was 12 years old. My father was in a band and wanted to tour, so we moved here, but it wasn't until I moved to Williamsburg and had my son that I felt like I finally belonged.

For me, coming to the national team is like coming home.

I feel like wherever I go, I will make it home.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a big place, and it's lonely. It takes a while to get into it. But once I got into the flow of it and started to grow up, I realised that my home is wherever I am.

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.

I almost feel like I grew up and was raised in America now, because I'm so comfortable here.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

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

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

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

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.