Quotes About Going Back To Hometown

#1. Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#2. My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.

Carrie Underwood

#3. Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

Ed Sabol

#4. For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

Jack Nicklaus

#6. The first thing I do when I get back to my hometown, San Antonio, is eat Whataburger.

Austin Mahone

#7. Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Michael Moore

#8. I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

Buzz Aldrin

#9. Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.

V.J. Campilan

#10. For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

Ken Thompson

#11. Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

Guy Lafleur

#12. Obviously it took much longer to come here than to go to Nagoya, but he felt no different that when he'd gone back to his hometown. Only the currency in his wallet had changed.

Haruki Murakami

#13. When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.

Gemma Arterton

#14. It's a big thing back in my hometown about me being here. There are a lot of people behind me.

Brandon Jacobs

#15. When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find-I've still got a hometown. This, nobody's gonna take away from me.

Rod Serling

#16. My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Fred Allen

#17. We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your life were worth it, so was the risk.

Gwenda Bond

#18. Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

Tim O'Brien

#19. That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

Mayer Hawthorne

#20. He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#21. A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

Robert Hurt

#22. Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

John C. Maxwell

#23. This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#24. I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

Joe Manganiello

#25. I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.

Columba Bush

#26. No one had ever given me any idea on how to handle it when the right one came along, but you weren't the right one for him.

Jay Crownover

#27. Let memories of your own hometown flow back to you as you read this fascinating story, "A Place called Gouyave," about the author's recollection of the characters, stories and the lessons learnt in his hometown during his youth on the Caribbean island of Grenada.

Collis Decoteau

#28. PEACEFULNESS: Do not allow life's challenges to disturb your tranquility. Life is far too precious to be wasted on nonessential issues.

Judy Smith

#29. There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.

Joseph Dougherty