Natalie Cole Quotes

The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy.

I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

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

I know people say that all the time, but for me, it's true: Manchester really is my second home.

A handsome period of my childhood was spent at our house in Tollygunge.

For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very comforting.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

Home is here in Philadelphia. I never like to be away too long.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

Almost everything I operated was in Melbourne and Perth, but in the end, I just couldn't bear the thought of leaving. Sydney is my home.

For me, a relationship with a place is very fundamental. When you're moving - when you're leaving your life and the place where you've lived on a semi-regular basis - you tend to connect the sense of your entire life to that place that you've left.

It's always strange going back to Villa Park for me.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I've rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed.

I love L.A., but Pittsburgh just is home. This is what I know. This is where I was born and raised. This is what molded me to make me who I am.