Joe Thomas Quotes

Everybody kind of feels something for where they grew up, where they came from.

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 am, and always will be, proud to be a Hackney girl.

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

I still think of myself as a Bostonian.

I enjoy where I'm from. That's me. And my family never let me get far away.

I'm so appreciative of Orlando. I am Orlando. Orlando made me. So when people link my name, they link my name to Orlando and nowhere else. I'll always be indebted to Orlando for that and grateful at the same time.

I feel like I'm a part of the Boston community.

I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven't changed.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

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.

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

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 will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

I come here as one of you - an Iowan!

I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'

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

Home is here in Philadelphia. I never like to be away too long.