Creed Bratton Quotes

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.

Home is wherever I go.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

There is no house like the house of belonging.

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

Home is a relative concept for me. I've been in Los Angeles 10 years, and I definitely feel at home here, but I also feel at home in a lot of places. I'm not too attached to anywhere, really. Home is where the people you love are at the time.

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

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

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.

Iowa is always home for me.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.

Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.

I feel like wherever I go, I will make it home.

I love Baltimore, I definitely look at it as home, somewhere I'm very comfortable.