Place Attachment Quotes

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Personally speaking, Canada is becoming more and more beguiling and mysterious and I feel as though I really need to explore it.

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

I miss my family, and I miss the New Jersey beaches. They have beaches here in L.A., but they aren't the same.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

Canberra always had a great sense of community when I was there.

I'm not gonna lie; I don't always like everything about Bow and I don't always like everyone in Bow and they don't always like me but on the whole I love where I come from. I'm proud of where I come from and I'm proud to represent that area.

Once I came to Salt Lake City, I didn't want to go anywhere else. It was home sweet home for me.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

While I'm a New Yorker at heart, and 'Harlem Honey' runs through my veins, Atlanta - its awesome residents and glorious landscapes - has a special place in the hearts of my family and I.

I get homesick - I could be in the sunniest place, but I need to see normality, and normal, for me, is London.

Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

I love Chicago.

I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that's an important part of my history, and I think all immigrants are the same. But if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia.

I feel very connected to Las Vegas. It's my hometown.

You know people probably don't realize this but I lived in Denver for 10 years as a kid. I was familiar with the city and what it had to offer. You know like any place it's changed a lot over the years. But that familiarity hit home for me.