W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.

Iowa is always home for me.

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.

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

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

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

Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

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

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

Wherever is your heart I call home.

There is no house like the house of belonging.

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

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

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.