Kevin Macdonald Quotes

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

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

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

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 best thing you can do is remember your home town.

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.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

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

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

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

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.

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.

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

People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time... But home has always been Calgary.

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

A big piece of my heart is definitely in Michigan and will always be in Michigan. Growing up there is definitely a big part of who I am as a person.

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.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

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.

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 never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.