Tom Bodett Quotes

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

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

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.

The Lakers had been home to me, unlike the home I had grown up and felt apart from.

I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.

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.

Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.

It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.

It's a strange life, isn't it? ...A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo... home is a family.

The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.