Henning Mankell Quotes

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

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.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

Home is a relative concept for me. I've been in Los Angeles 10 years, and I definitely feel at home here, but I also feel at home in a lot of places. I'm not too attached to anywhere, really. Home is where the people you love are at the time.

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

Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together with my brother the place we're in becomes home.

No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

I just try to make my home everywhere I go as much as I possibly can.

I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.

I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.

It's possible that Israel will be my second home, but it won't be my only home.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

Iowa is always home for me.

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

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

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

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.

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

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.

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

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