A Quote by Martial

A vagrant is everywhere at home. — © Martial
A vagrant is everywhere at home.

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Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up there but I'm no stranger here. Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. Everywhere you go there's nothing but the same rock and dirt and houses and people and deer and birds. They give it all names, but I'm at home everywhere. Odd thing: unpatriotic. I was at home in England. I would be at home in the desert. In Afghanistan or far Typee. All mine, it all belongs to me. My world.
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.
And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
I'm not a very savvy operator - it's not who I am, it's not what I do - and so I have to go at things in ways that suit me. I just write what I write and the stuff finds its vagrant way in the world, somehow. The venues appear; the work always finds a home, eventually.
Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time. Answering criticism that the book for which he won a Pulitzer Prize was written in the years he had been employed at the Smithsonian. He specified that did not write on the premises there, but only at home outside of working hours.
I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.
Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.
Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.
When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves, peace and love follow us wherever we go.
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