Eyes Quote by Alice Rohrwacher

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an…

— Rachel Cusk

When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back…

— William Cowper

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from…

— Blue Balliett

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

— V. S. Naipaul

I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my…

— Alicia Vikander

As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the…

— Robert Lepage

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

— Michael Strahan

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and…

— Juan Goytisolo

I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the lay of…

— Oprah Winfrey

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign,…

— Daniel Berrigan

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I…

— Andrew Garfield

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

— Zaha Hadid