hometown nostalgia Quotes

L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.

The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.

'What if this funny-looking youngster from Missouri is talented after all?' I think it was a nice place to grow up, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

I am a Chicagoan. I feel like I've simply been on vacation for 10 years in Los Angeles. But Chicago is a real place, and L.A. is a motel.

I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.

I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

U.P. is where I belong to, I was born in Meerut, so whenever I come here, I'm reminded of my childhood.

I still think of myself as a Philadelphian. I still root for the Philadelphia teams. Other than my house, I still feel most at home in terms of cities when I'm in Philly.

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to L.A. for work, when I'd come back and get off the plane and be driving towards the landscape of the city, I'd be beside myself with joy. It doesn't matter how many times!

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

My home town was really great to me. If you've ever watched 'The Andy Griffith Show,' it's like Mayberry.

Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood.

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

There's no place like Baltimore.

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

Springfield has always had a place in my heart.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.

That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

I'm from Miami, you know, when you're a child, you always want to play in front of your hometown.