Quotes About Home

The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.

I'll never forget this memory: I was at home, and suddenly my father came home with 10 footballs for me. I lived by a football pitch, so every day, I'd take the ball and practice shooting.

I grew up in Hockley, Birmingham. It was an environment I'll never forget in terms of playing football on local pitches, kicking a ball around in the front garden and all over the house. It was a positive place to live, and somewhere, that gave me the right grounding for where I am today.

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

I moved to Shaker Heights from Pittsburgh, PA, just before I turned 10.

I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.

I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.

I love the city of Pittsburgh.

I miss Pittsburgh.

I could never imagine myself living anywhere but Pittsburgh.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

Movies are a big thing in our house. Every Friday, we do family pizza night, and we make pizza from scratch, and then we sit down and watch a movie.

When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.

I like small parties with people I know. I like eating pizza at home with my girlfriend.

There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

Everybody needs a safe place, and it should be their home.

For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.

I would never ever forget my roots. I am always going back. Sometimes if I am driving, I find myself taking different routes, going down the old places I used to go. My mum is still in the house I grew up in.

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.