Ingmar Bergman Quotes

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

Everybody kind of feels something for where they grew up, where they came from.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.

Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.'

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

In truth, I was desperate to leave New York. And Moscow was a special place for me. It was the city where my parents had grown up, where they had met; it was the city where I was born.

I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreating where you grew up. It's strange and stimulating.

While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

I still live in the same town where I grew up.

There is a certain sentimental vibe in my home town of Manchester, which you would sort of expect.

All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho.

I miss my friends in London, and I really miss New York. But I also miss the stability of staying in one place and being able to just open a drawer if you've run out of sticky tape and chuck a new roll in the holder.

Sometimes you hear about people who can't wait to leave their hometown. I did not have that feeling at all. I love San Jose, I love the Bay Area, and I love coming home to visit.

U.P. is where I belong to, I was born in Meerut, so whenever I come here, I'm reminded of my childhood.

I just love home. I just attached to it since I grew up there my entire life.

It's been a long time since I lived in Michigan, but I did grow up there for 18 to 20 years of my life. It does feel my home state.