Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

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.

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

I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

There's a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere.

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

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

Seattle has always been home.

London made my family and myself.

Montreal is just so multicultural and ethnic and diverse, and it's what makes us special. I say 'us' like I still live there, but I still do feel like a Montrealer.

I'm thankful to be here in Cleveland, and I believe this is where I belong.

I still consider myself a New Yorker before all other nouns.

Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.

Mumbai is where my heart is. This is home.

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.

Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

There is no house like the house of belonging.

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

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.