Rachel Gibson Quotes

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

Where are we really going? Always home.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

Home is where one starts from.

South Central is just who I am.

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

He traveled in order to come home.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

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

For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

L.A. has always been home.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

Philadelphia is always going to be 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.

People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time... But home has always been Calgary.

The best thing you can do is remember your home town.

Seattle is home, that's first and foremost.

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma.

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

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?