Paul Millsap Quotes

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 grew up in New York, I love New York.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

I grew up in the Bronx.

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

If you grow up in a place, and you're small, even if the place is itself also small, it's huge to you. It's what's out there: it's the world outside of your door.

I left Chandigarh more than 30 years ago. I studied at Carmel Convent and we used to live in Sector 9. My fondest memories are all centered around this city!

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

I do miss the Chocolate City of my youth.

My New York, the one I identify with as a kid, has greatly changed. And I'm sure the people who were adults when I was a kid probably felt the same way.

I can't imagine anybody who showed up at Firestone for the first time who felt like they knew it better than I did. For me to travel to Akron the first time, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't wait, I know every hole on this golf course. I know the big water tower with the Firestone ball on top, I grew up with this. Here it is! It's real!'

I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's a bit like anyone: where you're brought up, you have an irresistible attraction to that place; it defines who you are.

I lived in Washington longer than I have lived anywhere else, so it's considered home, even though I moved back to California.

I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.

I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.

I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me.

Although I don't know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.