90 Hometown Quotes To Inspire You To Travel Home

Do you love your hometown? We have rounded up the best collection of hometown quotes, sayings, captions, status, (with images and pictures) to help you re-live your old childhood memories of your hometown.

Hometown is not only a country or a place it’s a place that gives you roots. It is a place where we were born or grow up and gives you your identity. Your heart really belongs to your home which you miss when you’re far away.

Also See: Small Town Quotes

These inspirational quotes will refresh your old memories and encourage you to find reasons to go back to your hometown. It brings nostalgia and will help you enjoy your life by getting away from all the tension and stress happening in your life.

If you find these quotes interesting and relatable, do check out our collection of missing home quotes to help you go back in time and refresh your memories if you are homesick.

Top 10 Hometown Quotes

1. “Never forget where you came from.”
2. “Hometown is where our story begins.”
3. “Happiness is… Travelling to the hometown.”

   
4. “In my hometown memories are fresh.” – Adele
5. “I never wore high heels in my hometown.” – Liu Wen
6. “Moving out of your hometown is a life hack.” – Will Smith
7. “We all have hometown appetites.” – Clementine Paddleford
8. “If I could travel the world, I would start it by visiting my hometown.”

   

9. “America is my country and Paris is my hometown.” – Gertrude Stein
10. “New York is my, you know, second hometown.” – Masaharu Morimoto

Best Quotes About Hometowns

1. “Backroads raise us, highways take us, memories make us wanna go back.”
2. “I live in a town that everyone claims to hate, yet they never seem to leave.”
3. “I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.” – Evel Knievel
4. “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” – Confucius
5. “I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.” – Dave Filoni
6. “Be proud of your hometown. It’s a big part of what makes you the person you are.”
7. “Travelling to your hometown is not a physical journey, it’s an emotional journey!!”

   

8. “Hometown: Where I was born, where I was raised, where I keep all my yesterdays.”
9. “My hometown is like a paradise for me, because seeing it, I remember my childhood.”
10. “Having somewhere to go is home. Someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.”

Inspiring Quotes On Hometown

1. “Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.” – Yoko Ono
2. “I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.” – Dolly Parton
3. “Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” – Billy Graham
4. “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” – Maya Angelou
5. “Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again.” – Tim McGraw
6. “In my hometown, the sky seemed endless . . . but there was nothing to see.” – Ryohgo Narita
7. “There’s a certain vibe in my hometown; Buffalo is a city that has no illusions.” – John Rzeznik
8. “People are not homeless if they’re sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.” – Dan Quayle
9. “It’s always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.” – Buddy Rice
10. “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. “Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.” – Jayne Anne Phillips
12. “It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.” – George Santayana
13. “Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
14. “Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” – James Joyce
15. “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” – Benjamin Franklin
16. “I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
17. “It’s my hometown, but it’s also a great town. There’s a lot of stories here when you peel back the layers.” – Joel Vetsch
18. “It’s been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.” – Pete Seeger
19. “The magic thing about your home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” – Wendy Wunder
20. “When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.”
21. “When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.” – Sam Ewing
22. “Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
23. “Every time I visit my hometown and see the rusty swings in the park, I realize, human are not the only ones growing old.”
24. “You always want to do things in your hometown. The kids feel more a part of the community when they do.” – Brian Perkins
25. “It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.” – Sarah Turnbull
26. “No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.” – Alexandra Lara
27. “In my hometown there is a pub named after me – The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?” – Jenson Button
28. “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
29. “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
30. “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, among his own relatives and in his own household.” – Mark 6:4 (Bible Verses)
31. “It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.” – Rumi
32. “It’s not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.” – Daryl Hannah
33. “I don’t like being away from home. While travelling the world can be fascinating, my hometown is still the most fascinating place I know.”
34. “It’s bragging rights in your hometown. Who doesn’t want to be the guy to go to 7-Eleven and be able to say they’re the king of the town?” – Arnold Alpert
35. “Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play ‘Christmas In Dixie’ by Alabama. I always remember lovin’ that song.” – Kenny Chesney
36. “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
37. “My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.” – Carrie Underwood
38. “When you leave your hometown, you earn fame, name, money, and all luxury of life. But you can never earn those hometown friends who stood by you. Yes I miss my friends.”
39. “Thinking about you sitting there saying, I hate this, I hate it. If you couldn’t stand living here why’d you take it take it. Give me back my hometown ’cause this is my hometown.” – Eric Church
40. “I couldn’t be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown for so long. That they are now here is just too good for wok.” – Maria Altmann
41. “I was happier going back to my roots: Training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don’t lift to look good; they lift to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.” – Joe Manganiello
42. “My inspiration is my hometown.” – Thomas Jones
43. “When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that’s one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find-I’ve still got a hometown. This, nobody’s gonna take away from me.” – Rod Serling
44. “I feel like, If I would have lived in my hometown, I probably would have gotten in a lot more trouble. I was just in places where I could have gotten in trouble. I skateboarded a lot, just getting into the wrong stuff. I could’ve just hung out with the wrong friends.” – Justin Bieber
45. “My Hometown: There are sweet smells I can’t forget, taste carved deep in my memory. When math was the biggest threat, now, where are those days of glory? The images of child hood are so clear, the streets I used to run are gone. Where are the things I hold so dear? I’ a drifter of the past, walking alone. I wish I could go back to my origin, to a place where all was pure and virgin, if I could only go there and try again! And you? Where are you my lost love? You stayed behind in our hometown, while I flew away like a wounded dove. Oh! If only we could turn time around!”

Leaving Hometown Quotes

While growing up, we all have dreamt of moving away from our native place to big cities for education or to make our career.

But as we start growing up and start earning, we realize the importance of our hometown. The feeling of love for our hometown and family makes us miss our real home and the people there.

1. “Leaving my hometown and my family was very hard.” – Camille Moute
2. “God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.” – Meiter Eckhart
3. “You see much more of your children once they leave home.” – Lucille Ball
4. “Painful though parting is, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds.” – Emperor Saga
5. “It is so hard to leave – until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” – John Green, Paper Towns
6. “That day when I was shifting from my hometown, I felt my luggage quite heavy, may be because my reluctant soul made me weak.”
7. “I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don’t mind leaving nearly everything behind.” – Beth Revis, ‘A Tyranny of Petticoats.’
8. “I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I’ve always had a fascination with my hometown.” – Kenny Wallace
9. “When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I’d always been really inspired by fashion and music, especially when punk came out in ’76 or ’77.” – Hiroshi Fujiwara
10. “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
11. “When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy technicolor bricks. You’ll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you’re nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you’ll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.” – Kelly Cutrone

Small Hometown Quotes

1. “Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.” – Anna Nicole Smith
2. “There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either.” – R.A. Mathis
3. “A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.” – Burt Bacharach
4. “Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.” – Jodelle Ferland
5. “When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people? is this my hometown, am I who I am?” – Azar Nafisi
6. “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
7. “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
8. “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

Back To Hometown Quotes

During Christmas and holidays, we all long to be back to our hometown with our friends and family. It’s a time to relive your childhood days and enjoy family time.

1. “Seek home for rest, for home is best.” – Thomas Tusser
2. “We laid a lot of memories down, like tattoos on this town.”
3. “Life takes you to unexpected places, love brings you home.”

   

4. “As I revisit my hometown, the familiar streets, greet me with a smile.”
5. “I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.” – Dolly Parton
6. “There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.” – Rosalynn Carter
7. “There’s something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.” – Joseph Dougherty
8. “In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.” – Miriam Makeba
9. “It’s a big thing back in my hometown about me being here. There are a lot of people behind me.” – Brandon Jacobs