Robert Indiana Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

When you've moved 13 times, you lose track of where you're from.

I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.

When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since my dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, I lived in a different home every couple of years.

I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

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

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

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.

We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me wherever I go.

We moved around a ton when I was a kid. I think we lived in 9 different houses before I was 15 - we moved from the city back to the suburbs; different suburbs, different houses, all over the place.

Yes, I'm a complete itinerant. I keep making attempts not to be, but then circumstances make me uproot and go somewhere else again. It's not the worst thing in the world at all; I love it. In fact, I'm probably horribly addicted to it.

I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

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

I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.

One of my daughters was born in Kansas City. I spent almost 10 years there.

We don't know, ultimately, if we'll end up in San Francisco, but we're talking about keeping the house. It would be nice to always have a place here.