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(speaking in the 1960s) "It would be wrong of me to say so, but in this country (USA) money is more important than love. Most people here betray you and that`s why there is so much chaos. I want to get away from here. I am homesick for Vienna ... because my home is Vienna and Austria, not America...never!"

- Hedy Lamarr

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn`t appreciate its beauty.

- Tyra Banks

(on buying a copy of Upton Sinclair`s "Oil!", which he adapted into There Will Be Blood (2007)) I was homesick and the book had a painting of California on the cover.

- Paul Thomas Anderson

I was getting homesick so it`s great to be back here again and great to have a chance to give back to the community I grew up in.

- Paul Gross

I didn`t see them for six weeks, which was the longest I`ve been separated from them. It was really difficult. I was terribly homesick.

- Ray Winstone

I love everything about India. It doesn`t make me homesick. And the best part is the people around. I just love them.

- Tania Zaetta

`It`s Alright, Ma` would be the prototype for that tune, I freely admit, ... When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I`d just skip back and forth endlessly between `Subterranean Homesick Blues` and `It`s Alright, Ma` and `Mr. Tambourine Man,` and now my Dylan roots are showing big time.

- Rodney Crowell

Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

- John Cheever

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.

- Alph Bingham

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you`re home.

- Annie Gray

Don`t you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it`s in the sea, and it`s homesick, and bound to make its way home someday

- Zora Neale Hurston

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

- Edgar Watson Howe