Cory Booker Quotes

My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

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.

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 a rootless individual, but when I land in Belize, I have that feeling of comfort that I am returning home.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

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

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

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

For me, I would say that the overarching reason that it's important for me to stay in Cleveland... when I was drafted here I really kind of embraced being a Clevelander.

I still consider myself a New Yorker before all other nouns.

Everyone knows I'm very close to my family, my hometown, my homeland.

Whenever I am in U.P., I feel as if I am at home.

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

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

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 spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.

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.

I enjoy where I'm from. That's me. And my family never let me get far away.