Emma Goldman Quotes

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

But my parents picked Ft. Wayne, which was the best decision because if they had brought me to New York or Philly, I would have swam back to Trinidad!

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

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

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

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.

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.

America is a land in which a man forgets his native country.

I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out.

It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make.

I figured New York was the closest I'd get here in America to Scotland.

I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

It is not always easy to change country.

I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I've lived more in Europe than Africa.

When you've been Bayern for so long and it's your second home, moving away from here is not easy.

I wanted to do comedy because I left Malaysia and went to America. I got bitten by the Western, idealist, opinionated, democracy bug.