Roman Abramovich Quotes

In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

I love how close New York is to Europe; I love the seasons, and I don't think I could live without them. They're the way I track the passage of time.

I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.

New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.

The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back.

I could go to L.A. for limited amounts of time, but I like New York too much. I like seasons. I like fall.

Moving to India was challenging being a foreigner. I don't have any family here. I didn't have anyone to guide me. But I never felt for a second that I am not welcome here.

I was able to start a family in London and so on. It's a very dear place to my heart and will continue to be.

I wanted to feel at home so I've brought Yorkshire Tea Bags in my suitcase, as well as my slippers!

Everything has changed since I came to China.

I like the cold.

I still remember my days in Komarock estate, the days when it was all normal, and even though I am born and bred in Belgium, I could easily fit in and feel like any other Kenyan.

New York, Dubai and London are places where I love to shop.

I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.

The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not New York.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.

To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.

My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.