Van Morrison Quotes

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

I really care about people around me, and I can't live without my family and friends.

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.

I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

Next to my family in Manila, Journey is my family.

The city of Oakland, since I got here, has been like my second family. They've taken me in and had my back through the hard times and they've celebrated with me through the good times. And so, I love Oakland.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

I am here because of love.