Al Horford Quotes

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

I consider myself Russian-American because I'm American by ethnicity and by passport, but I spent all my forming years over in the former Soviet Union in a Russian school. I never went to an American school. There was a lot of culture shock when I moved back to the States when I was 17.

I'm from the Philippines and I moved to this country when I was 16.

When I first came to this country I was this new kid from the Caribbean. England was a rude awakening for me.

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

The only time I used to feel like an outsider was when I first went to India.

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli... Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode of transportation - an embassy car instead of a bus.

When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!