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“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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“Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.”
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“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.”
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“Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.”
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“More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.”
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“Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most”
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“Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.”
Source : Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.236, Da Capo Press
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“Believe in yourself, Anything is possible no matter who you are, or where you come from. Find your path and stay on it, if you want something bad enough, nothing can stop you.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?”
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“I belong where you belong”
