Alice Ripley Quotes

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

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

London is where I grew up, and I know it better than any other place.

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.

Although I was born in New York, I moved to Baltimore when I was young. And I like to say New York birthed me, but Baltimore raised me. A big part of my heart was always in Baltimore.

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

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

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's a bit like anyone: where you're brought up, you have an irresistible attraction to that place; it defines who you are.

I love Baltimore, I definitely look at it as home, somewhere I'm very comfortable.

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

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.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. I've been in London for 22 years now but Manchester's the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

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

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.