“The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.”— Lyman Abbott
“A man loves his own city, not because it is beautiful, but because it is his own.”— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
“In this country, you can be a success for many years, but you are still an immigrant. You are not a regular person.”— Edwidge Danticat
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”— Mo Udall
“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