Last Updated on December 19, 2022
Having a hometown is more than just having a place where you were born and raised. That town is a part of you and who you are. It is often a place that you see yourself growing old in and making more memories in, just as you did when you were a child growing up.
Perhaps you have left your hometown and are thinking of returning? If so, then these quotes on how special having a hometown is and returning to that hometown will make you want to get back even faster.
Perhaps you have lived in your hometown all of your life and are super-proud of it. If so, you could take a number of these quotes and write them down somewhere to keep them in your memory, or perhaps you can get them drawn onto a nice background and framed for your home.
You should always remember that home is where the heart is, and if your heart belongs in the place where you were born and raised, then these hometown quotes are exactly what you need.
Inspiring Hometown Quotes
Here is a list of 35 awesome hometown quotes that will have you longing to return to the place you were raised.
1.”Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.”
– Jodelle Ferland.
2.”It was soothing to sit with life-long friends, the cacophony of bar sounds around us while we caught up on our lives and talked about the glory days of high school. My life since then had been on an accelerated trajectory, not always aimed in the best direction. I acquired a sense of well-being from those friends who married their high school sweethearts, set up housekeeping a stone’s throw from where they grew up, and kept the heartbeat of small-town living beating rhythmically.”
-Debi Tolbert Duggar.
3.”She told me ‘I want to go to your hometown. Someday I will go there and I will smile till the time I will stay there and be happy because it’s your home town. I am going to see you in every wall, every street, every glass, in every person, in every wave of the sea and smile.'”
– Avijeet Das.
4.”When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people? is this my hometown, am I who I am?”
-Azar Nafisi.
5.”Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.”
-Yoko Ono.
6.”I never wore high heels in my hometown.”
-Liu Wen.
7.”In my hometown there is a pub named after me – The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?
– Jenson Button.
8.”In my hometown memories are fresh.”
– Adele.
9.”It’s not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.”
– Daryl Hannah.
10.”Once I had put enough distance between myself and where I grew up, I started to see its beauty. I started to see it the way outsiders do – maybe because I had become an outsider.”
– Taylor Jenkins Reid.
11. “I am realising this now more as I grow up: that I never really felt connected to locations. In some sense, I always kind of felt a little lost in that I never had any hometown pride. While I experience a lot different places and experiences, I always felt a little detached.”
-Lauv.
12.”I don’t like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they’re all about.”
– Tank Abbott.
13.”In my hometown, the sky seemed endless . . . but there was nothing to see.”
-Ryohgo Narita
14.”It’s my hometown, but it’s also a great town. There’s a lot of stories here when you peel back the layer.”
-Joel Vetsch.
15.”There’s something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.”
-Joseph Dougherty.
16.”When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.”
-Sam Ewing
17.”Leaving my hometown and my family was very hard.”
-Camille Moute.
18.”Painful though parting is, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds.”
– Emperor Saga.
19.”I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don’t mind leaving nearly everything behind.”
– Beth Revis, ‘A Tyranny of Petticoats.’
20.”You see much more of your children once they leave home.”
-Lucille Ball.
21.”After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew.”
-Lemony Snicket.
22.”A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.”
-Burt Bacharach.
23.”Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.”
-Anna Nicole Smith.
24.”There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either.”
-R.A. Mathis.
25.”The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does.”
-Immanuel Kant.
26.”There’s a certain vibe in my hometown; Buffalo is a city that has no illusions.”
– John Rzeznik.
27.”No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.”
-Alexandra Lara.
28.”I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.”
– Dave Filoni.
29.”Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it’s going. I’m happy.”
– Eric Davis.
30.”Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell.
31. “Moving out of your hometown is a life hack.”
– Will Smith
32. “We all have hometown appetites.”
– Clementine Paddleford
33. “I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.”
– Evel Knievel
34. “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
– Confucius
35. “I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.”
– Dolly Parton