Home Country Quotes

“I want to be able to share the place I come from, just like I would share a piece of fresh Polish bread.”
― Sana Szewczyk, Under a Ginkgo Tree and Other Stories

“Beauty, I am coming. I am on my way. I have not forgotten your fragile pastries. The ridges on your leavened bread. Half-eaten pomegranate in General Sahib's fridge. Cherries so big they redden Rubiya's hands, Irem's fingers. Kashmir, you are real. You are my half-chilled soup, minced cilantro, my zaman pilaf. Bittersweet chukunder. Rista. Aab gosht. Gurdé Kaporé. Kidney and testicle curry. Kaléji. Sheermal. Lavasa. Tsot. Maythi paratha. Kabuli chana. Nargissi kebab. Tamatar muli. You are a sudden red mirchi. You give me pleasure and pain, both at once. You are my dream, my desire. My North, my brain. My pounding headache.”
― Jaspreet Singh, Chef

“I belong to the whole world but America will always be my home country, because she adopted me and honored me as a son, when the country I was born in kicked me around like garbage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“I don’t really know what home country means or feels like. I lost it when I was ten. And to be honest, I have given up on the idea and desire of ever finding it again.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“One part of me is happy only in America, the other only in Europe.
Without Americans, I would be very much at home in my country.”
― Henry Miller