Floyd Skloot Quotes

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

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

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

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

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

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

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

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

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.

I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes. . . .

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

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

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

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