Paul Ryan Quotes

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Cruces is like my town, where I grew up, where my heart is... All the teachers and coaches and people who have really influenced my life are from there.

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'

There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

I've lived in Colorado longer than anywhere else in my life. All four of our boys were born and raised here. All of our friends are here.

I have lived in south London all my life, and my family is here.

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

I don't live in London. I live in the place that I sing about.

Everybody deserves a piece of where they live, in some type of fashion. Music is just my way of preserving that.

I've lived in Croydon most of my life.

No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

I am who I am, a Southie.

South Central is just who I am.

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.

I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

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

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.