Quotes About Identity

Some people are born very far from home.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

One is always at home in one's past.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.

When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

I don't feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.

Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.