39 Quotes About Hometown

I still feel at home in Baltimore in a way I will never feel anywhere else – part of the definition of home being a place you don’t belong anymore.

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.

Where are you from exactly?” he asked his state-based colleague, after exchanging first pleasantries.“Gulf Shores.” Paul replied.“I know we’re at the Gulf shore,” Garry said. “But where exactly?” “Gulf Shores is a place.”“Where’s Gulf Shores?” Garry went on with questioning, feeling increasingly silly. “Baldwin County.” “Where’s Baldwin County?

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

She told me that some day she would go to my hometown and stay there for a while and be happy. And she will see me in every wall, every street, every glass, in every person, in every wave of the sea and smile.

She spared a glance for the townscape of jagged roofs and straggly tree branches, of rough edges that snagged the sky and made it bleed starlight.

He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?