Lucy Larcom Quotes

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

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

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

What does 'home' really mean? Is it merely geography, where you were born? Could it include straddling two continents and cultures? Or perhaps it's a place with a spiritual magnetism - a feeling toward a culture or people - that's tough to put into words?

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

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

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.

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.

I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.

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

I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

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

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

Whether I live there again or not, Seattle will always be my home.

I definitely feel more attached to Kolkata than anywhere else in India.

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