Edward Rutherfurd Quotes

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

I always take D.C. with me. And I always come back home.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.

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

I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I feel myself, I feel connected.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

New York is in my DNA.

I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

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

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

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

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

Iowa is always home for me.

On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.

I feel like a Nice citizen: it's my hometown. I come back to the city to spend time there because it's in my DNA.

I always had my roots in the past.

Home is where we have a history.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.