Said Quote by Melina Marchetta

“Scatter?” Tate said. “Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?” “Because we’ll never know how great this place is until we leave it,”…

— Melina Marchetta

“Why do you live out here? You're a great healer; you could get work in the inner city if you wanted to. Even in…

— Hazel Blackthorn

“The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away—to go, as he concluded, ‘anywhere! anywhere! so long as it…

— Alain de Botton

“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no…

— Henry David Thoreau

“ 'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's what.' Where I don't forget what I am,…

— Lisa Henry

“I know.” She sighed. “We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“...he realized that here, amongst the dunes and stars … Here, in the heart of a foreign land … Here, with her, he was home.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. We bring home with us when we…

— Colum McCann

“...I have often wondered why we do it. Uproot ourselves, I mean. Why we feel the need to travel and wander into strange soil.…

— V.J. Campilan

“She had that emigrant’s sadness—she would never go back to her old country—it was gone in more senses than one—but she was forever gazing…

— Colum McCann

“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home,…

— Danzy Senna