Simone Weil Quotes

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

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

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

In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

I want to stay rooted forever.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.

Home is here in London and always has been.

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.

I'm always in touch with where I'm from.

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.

Home is wherever I hang my hat.

I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.