Emily Giffin Quotes

The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.

My parents used to bring me to Radio City when I was a little girl, so performing there 50 years later was absolutely surreal - especially with my parents in the audience!

I was born in Luton, I grew up in Luton, and all my family and friends are still there. Luton is home for me.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

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.

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

Mexico is where I fell in love for the first time; it's where my family lives... so however much I travel, I inevitably return there.

Everybody kind of feels something for where they grew up, where they came from.

Whether I live there again or not, Seattle will always be my home.

I still live in the same town where I grew up.

Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.

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

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

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.

I lived in Washington longer than I have lived anywhere else, so it's considered home, even though I moved back to California.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

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.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.