39 Quotes About Hometown

Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands of social position.

Once I had put enough distance between myself and where I grew up, I started to see its beauty. I started to see it the way outsiders do - maybe because I had become an outsider.

This isn’t then though. This is my hometown. A place where your business aired to the public, and often before the newspaper ever got a hold of it. A place where a façade was an art.

There’s something comforting about living where you’ve always been. Everyone knows you. You’re part of something.

When you are part of a place, growing that moment in its soil, there’s never a need to say you’re from there. I never uttered the words ‘I’m from Idaho’ until I’d left it.

One of the advantages to visiting historic sites as opposed to merely reading about them is the endearing glow of hometown pride.

At one point, Jack was enlisted to move Red from his aunt Maude’s house in Redlands to his grandma Iris’s house in Pomona.

Thế nhưng mà thôi, nói mấy cũng là thừa, bởi vì từ xưa tới nay ai cũng biết là Bắc Việt nghèokhổ mà Nam Việt thì phè phỡn. Phè phỡn vì Nam Việt là con cưng được trời thương, nhưng“con ghét làm nên” có lẽ cũng là được trời thương cách khác. Nhưng dù là con thương hay con ghét thì cũng là anh em ruột thịt cho nên Nam, Bắc lúc nào cũng thương nhau, mỗi khi thấy cẳng đậu đun hạt đậu, thì hạt đậu khóc hu hu:Cùng chung nhau một mẹ,Đun nhau nỡ thế ru?(Tháng Một)

He is a man of many lands and many names, but no native soil. Perhaps he carries his hometown on his back, like an ageless turtle.