John Burnside Quotes

I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.

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.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was three or four.

I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

I have worked in so many countries over the years that I must have moved house about 20 times.

I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.

Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.

I've lived in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Dallas. I started in Orlando, so I've been north and south.

I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I was 14.

We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.

By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.

When I first came to Atlanta, I did not want to come here; I got traded here.

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

I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.