“The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.”— Lyman Abbott
“This is my latest home, and it invites me to a glad new life. The endless ages have been preparing me for this friendliness. It is pedigreed past pedigree.”— Mary Antin
“I am from a place, from a land. I am a tree, with roots in a country. People who are not from one place are like a tree without roots, which cannot bear fruit.”— Eduardo Chillida
“Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.”— Isak Dinesen
“A man loves his own city, not because it is beautiful, but because it is his own.”— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
“All of us are in some way Odo... a person who is trying to find his or her place in the world and may feel like an outsider.”— Rene Auberjonois