Al Franken Quotes

New York is who I am.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

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

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.

New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.

New York is my home.

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.

I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there.

London made my family and myself.

New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know what to do with myself.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

I'm New York-born and raised.

I truly have New York embedded in my blood.

Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

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.

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.