Colum McCann Quotes

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.

It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

You may almost forget the smell of your family.

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.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

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

I have great, fond memories of Canada. I feel that one day my bones will more than likely end up there.

I do miss England. Well, I miss the idea of England, I think. But I haven't been back for years. I probably just miss the past.

My parents used to bring me to Radio City when I was a little girl, so performing there 50 years later was absolutely surreal - especially with my parents in the audience!

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.

Mexico is where I fell in love for the first time; it's where my family lives... so however much I travel, I inevitably return there.

I suppose any person who's played somewhere for a certain amount of time and then has the opportunity to go back and just reminisce a little bit, maybe it holds a different feeling than some of the other places.

Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.

Sevilla are so important in my life: I met my wife there, our daughter was born there, we have a home there, and we'll go back.

A part of me will stay at La Real and San Sebastian.

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On