Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.

My family moved a lot, so I was always walking in as the new kid.

I knew I needed to move away when I was 15, but when I got to Norwich, I spent nights crying myself to sleep with homesickness. For any young kid moving away from home, that is the biggest thing you have to deal with.

It definitely took me a while to adjust to L.A. I came out knowing nobody, and I'd never lived away from home before.

I think that a lot of people I'm close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home... You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me.

I had never been out of the Bay Area before. It was very traumatic moving to New York.

Going to Charlotte and being there two years, I missed L.A., but it was good for me.

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

It was really tough being 14 and moving away from home.

When I came to Mumbai from Indore, I knew nobody.

The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.

The Manchester move was OK. I was still in England and I knew I could go back home.

I remember, when we moved out to Colorado, I was struggling. The mountains were so big, and I wasn't really prepared or used to it all.

When you are in a new country, and you are alone and know that your family don't stay here, it is not simple.

I remember moving to California and feeling so strange because I'd always seen myself moving to New York.

I grew up without a television, so when I went to L.A., it was sort of, you know, a lot to take in, but it actually suited me more than where I was from, so I sort of had that 'home away from home' feeling, and L.A. is definitely home now.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

I remember being this little girl missing her daddy and living so far away in France and from anything that was familiar to me. I felt so different and so isolated. When you're removed from everything that's familiar, you realize who you are.