Joanna Jedrzejczyk Quotes

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

People ask me all the time, 'Why did I move home?' As well as I can articulate it, that's why. I moved home because I love the community that I come from.

I love L.A., but Pittsburgh just is home. This is what I know. This is where I was born and raised. This is what molded me to make me who I am.

The best thing you can do is remember your home town.

Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

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

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.

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

I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.

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

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.

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.

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.

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.

I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

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

For me, London is and always will be home.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.