Abraham Lincoln Quotes

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.

The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

Yorkshire is so much part of me.

It's really important to go back to where you come from.

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.

New York is in my DNA.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.

My blood, my roots, my soul is in the state of Montana.

My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.

I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.