Graham Swift Quotes

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

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.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

I still think of myself as a Bostonian.

My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.

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

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

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

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.

I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

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.

It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

I am, and always will be, proud to be a Hackney girl.