Monica Johnson Quotes

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.

New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here.

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

In truth, I was desperate to leave New York. And Moscow was a special place for me. It was the city where my parents had grown up, where they had met; it was the city where I was born.

Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.

N.Y. is like second home to me. I love that city. I have lived there for a couple of years and it's always a pleasure to go back there.

When I go back to Louisiana, I want to be the same person that my friends remember me as. It's so important to me.

I've always wanted to title an album 'Illinois.' I wrote the song, which was a very special song to me. The song isn't exactly about being from there, even though I am.

I'm happy ever since stepping back to New York.

I went back to Kolkata around two years back after a gap of 14 years, and though the city had changed, the people hadn't. Everybody is cultured and knowledgeable there. I have emotional memories of the place.

I embrace New York.

I love being back on the East Coast.

When I left Spain, I had it very clear in my mind that I would return one day.

Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.

I'm not talking about any one team but everyone knows how I feel about New York. I really enjoyed my time there.

It is always special to play against my old team.

Atlanta has accepted me with open arms. Baltimore is always my first home but being able to come here is special.

I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city. People used to think Miami was just partying in South Beach all the time.

I'm very loyal to my south fans and the industry there. So, it's hard for me leave all the love, respect, and admiration and shift base here. I'm a Mumbai girl and have lived here for most of my life. At the same time, I've spent 10 years of my life in the South and feel like a south Indian at heart.

It is always great to come back to your own college.

I was sad to leave Green Bay, and I don't think I would have left to go anywhere but home to Carolina.