Patti Davis Quotes

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

He traveled in order to come home.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

Home is where I shed my skin.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

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

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

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.

When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

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

When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.

So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.

Where are we really going? Always home.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes. . . .