Tracy Kidder Quotes

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

I come from Texas. We're a different brand of people. You're not changing who I am.

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't define myself as a Northerner in that I don't live in the North.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture.

Derby born and bred, mate.

I'm not opposed - we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina - I just choose not to wear them. It's a Southern thing. It's a cultural thing.

I've got Aussie country pride for sure. I just like where I grew up. I think you've got lots in common with the people who grew up the same as you.

The South is the last place with a sense of place.

Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.

I'm Southern to the bone.

I'm from the north. You can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the boy.

I'm proud to be from the North-East.

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.

Since I belong to Chandigarh, I love coming to Punjab.

I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk... When I go to the East Coast, people automatically know I'm not from there.

I am a pakka South Indian at heart.