{"quotes":[{"text":"Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.","author":"V.J. Campilan","tags":["homecoming","hometown","lonely","manila"],"id":3894,"author_id":"V.J.+Campilan"},{"text":"Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.","author":"Rebecca Wells","tags":["family-relationships","hometown"],"id":32222,"author_id":"Rebecca+Wells"},{"text":"No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.","author":"Alexandra Maria Lara","tags":["me","career","hometown "],"id":95670,"author_id":"Alexandra+Maria+Lara"},{"text":"I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["geography","hometown","leaving","loving"],"id":201922,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["contentment","home","hometown","new-york-city","new-yorker","optimism"],"id":242761,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"You’ll find the buildings taller, thatthe halls are full of ghostsbut everything still here iswhat you remember most.","author":"Savannah Brown","tags":["a-poem-for-ohio","childhood","hometown","poetry","savannah-brown"],"id":248531,"author_id":"Savannah+Brown"},{"text":"Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.","author":"Cheryl James","tags":["want","hometown","you "],"id":258840,"author_id":"Cheryl+James"},{"text":"In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!","author":"Jenson Button","tags":["me","hometown","pub "],"id":279473,"author_id":"Jenson+Button"},{"text":"Live life so well that, even if you die, the empty seats behind you will tell the story that, 'yea, this soul did what God sent him/her to do'. Give life and hope into your family, village, community, country, continent and the world at large. You can do it!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accomplish","accomplishment","chief-mourners","community","country","death","die","empty","empty-house","empty-seats","family","food-for-thought","fulfill","fulfillment","funeral","god","hometown","impact","israelmore-ayivor","legacy","live-life-so-well","make-a-difference","mourn","mourning","neighbors","neighbours","pay-tribute","residence","sad","sad-news","soul","story","succeed","success","tributes","village","you-can-do-it"],"id":292670,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like the locals to be rejected as one of their own.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["alien","appalachia","backwoods","birthplace","comedy","country","et","extraterrestrial","funny","home","hometown","human","humanity","humor","identity","outcase","outsider","parody","redneck","rejection","satire","south","southern","spaceship","ufo","wit"],"id":352891,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}