Curtis Jones Quotes

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

I'm happy I've stayed because Rome has become my home and an indelible part of my life, in an almost unreal way.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

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

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.

I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.

I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

I think my core values are all about family and just at the end of the day, coming home and knowing that I'm happy being the person that I am - and that doesn't come without struggles, but to me success is just being able to go home and feel like you connected with somebody.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you.

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

I never belonged anywhere until I met you.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

My best audience and where I’m happiest is in the gay community. That’s where I feel the most accepted. It’s a community that appreciates pop culture like no other. For me, that’s where I’m home and I always want to come home.

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

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

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.