Michael Ashcroft Quotes

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

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

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

I'm very British at heart. When I come to England, I say I'm coming home, and then it's funny: when I leave England to go back to L.A., I also say I'm going back home.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

If home is where the heart is, then Belize is my home.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.

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

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.

I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

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

Iowa is always home for me.

I always take D.C. with me. And I always come back home.

On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.

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

Whenever I am in U.P., I feel as if I am at home.

Every time I go to Veracruz, I feel like, OK, I am back. When my feet go to the ground on the earth, I think, 'This is me, this is home, these are my roots, and now I can go and travel again to wherever you want me to go.'

Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together with my brother the place we're in becomes home.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

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.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.