Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Homesick Quotes from famous authors such as Michaela Conlin, Anne Tyler, E. W. Howe, Hiro Murai, John Cheever. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.
2
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime.
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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
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It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever-increasing body of refereed scientific thought… hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really.
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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When my father passed away, I learned to be unattached to physical things. At a very young age, I was able to roam the world and be emotionally connected but physically disconnected. I’ll get homesick in that I miss my mom. My grounding rock is her and my family.
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
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Don’t think I am not homesick for America. I say ‘homesick’ advisedly because I am a man with two homes – America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.
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I get homesick driving to the grocery store.
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I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I’ve never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.
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When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times.
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You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.
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I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I’m 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They’re aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.
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I’m homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.
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In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
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People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
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All my stories take place on the West Coast – not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
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At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.
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I get homesick – I could be in the sunniest place, but I need to see normality, and normal, for me, is London.
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I get very homesick, but otherwise it’s a great privilege to get to travel for work.
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Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.
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I was 15 on the show, and I cried a lot. I was homesick, and was so worried, that I didn’t think of being on ‘American Idol.’ I was so worried that I was going home every week that I didn’t enjoy it as much as I should have.
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I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.
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I am lucky because I can feel at home anywhere, I don’t get homesick.
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I’ve been writing a lot of road songs. Writing a lot of homesick songs. But once you start playing them out, it all ain’t no secret anymore. Everyone knows how you feel.
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On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered that expressing these emotions, instead of bringing help and consolation, attracted a gloating, predatory fascination.
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Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn’t appreciate its beauty.
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I don’t especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I’ve never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.
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One thing I wish I’d done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.
32
After I’ve been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.
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I get homesick.
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I get really homesick inside.
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South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase – ‘I was homesick even when I was home.’