Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I was born in England, but India is the only place I feel at home.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

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

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

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

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

Of course, our roots are in Germany, it always will be the feeling of home.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

Australia is my birth home, so it will always be a home of some sort. But I'm very happy, very pleased to be representing Great Britain. That is my home, and that is where my heart is. That is where I grew up, essentially. So when people ask me where I'm from, where is home, that's where it is.

What does 'home' really mean? Is it merely geography, where you were born? Could it include straddling two continents and cultures? Or perhaps it's a place with a spiritual magnetism - a feeling toward a culture or people - that's tough to put into words?

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

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

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

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

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

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

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we'd moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents' houses were 'home,' and the sale of the last of those houses was hard.

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