Buzz Aldrin Quotes

America has always been a special place for me, since my youth.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

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

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

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

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.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

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 do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

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

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

Something has been lost, a special feeling of patriotism, of belonging, is vanishing.

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

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 longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.

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.

I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.

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 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.

Everyone knows I'm very close to my family, my hometown, my homeland.

Pakistan is my home; I don't want to feel harassed in my own home.

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