Brooke Baldwin Quotes

What any immigrant is after is a taste of 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.

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.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

Every time I go to Veracruz, I feel like, OK, I am back. When my feet go to the ground on the earth, I think, 'This is me, this is home, these are my roots, and now I can go and travel again to wherever you want me to go.'

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

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

My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

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

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

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

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

I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

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

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

A big piece of my heart is definitely in Michigan and will always be in Michigan. Growing up there is definitely a big part of who I am as a person.

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

I was born in England, but India is the only place I feel at home.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

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.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.