Rudolfo Anaya Quotes

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

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

Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.

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.'

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

I wrote the script to 'Lady Bird,' and it really came out of a desire to make a project about home - like, what the meaning of home is, and place. I knew Sacramento very well, obviously, growing up there, and I felt like the right way to tell a story of a place was through a person who's about to leave it.

Iowa is always home for me.

I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.

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

I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are.

Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

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

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

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

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

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.

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.

For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.

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