Jonathan Powell Quotes

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

I live in too many cities.

I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere. When I was still very young, my father told me: 'Look, we will always have to move, again and again.' I thought that was marvelous! That's how I got used to thinking that life meant starting from scratch, over and over again.

I lived just outside of L.A. for a long time. My dad was in the military, so I moved a lot.

I am a Maharashtrian but was not brought up in Maharashtra, as my father worked in CPWD and was transferred every two years. So I have always been a gypsy. I, therefore, could not make good friends, and it still takes me a long time to form attachments.

We lived in 14 different houses until I was 8, renting here and there.

I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.

My dad didn't like staying in one place, so we moved around every year - to a new house, new town, new country.

When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.

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

My father was a coach, so there was a lot of moving around, not having a base.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years, and then we'd move again. That was just for my dad's work.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.