Joan Smalls Quotes

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

Home is here in London and always has been.

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

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

Iowa is always home for me.

God, it's good to come home. No matter what you achieve, you come home, and everything is normal.

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.

Every time I come back to the Twin Cities, I feel like I'm coming back home.

I miss my friends in London, and I really miss New York. But I also miss the stability of staying in one place and being able to just open a drawer if you've run out of sticky tape and chuck a new roll in the holder.

Whenever I am in U.P., I feel as if I am at home.

You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.

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.

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.