Alice Hoffman Quotes

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.

I'll always be somebody who spends a lot of time in a lot of places; that's just always going to be the way. But I try to spend as much time in Ireland as I can, because it's lovely, and it feels like a release.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

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

Movement is a fantastic privilege... but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

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 like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would 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.

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

My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.

I travel all over the country, all over the world, and I'm happy to call Texas home.

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together with my brother the place we're in becomes home.

Home is anywhere I hang my hair

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

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

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.

Home is where we have a history.

My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

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

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