Willa Cather Quotes

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 lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

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.

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.

I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.

I once wrote that the first week in Jerusalem was the hardest week of my life. I was different, other; my clothes were different, as was my language. All of the classes were in Hebrew - science, bible, literature. I sat there not understanding one word. When I tried to speak, everyone would laugh at me.

The first season in a new country like England is very difficult.

After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.

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

In Heidelberg, in Hoffenheim, there's not much going on. I am so used to being around my London estate, so when I am here I am kind of lost in a different environment, a different area.

I was very affected as a foreigner coming from Copenhagen, which is the safest, most liberal town in the entire galaxy. I was like an alien stranded in a strange land for the first time in the U.S.

It was tough moving to Italy so young. You don't have much experience of life, you are leaving your family and everything behind to go to another country and another culture.

Stranger in a strange country.

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 came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

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

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

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.

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.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

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