Mike Barnicle Quotes

I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.

I've lived in the same apartment since seventh grade. It's in my name now; my mom moved upstate.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

Families used to come from somewhere, and that's where they stayed.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

I do get around. Geographically, that is.

The history of America is the history of families moving.

When I wanted to go away to college in Toronto, my dad said, 'You can't go.' When I got to Toronto, I bought a couch, and my dad cried for the whole weekend because, as my mum told me, 'Now you have furniture; he knows you are never coming back.'

I grew up in a really small town. I had a great friend group and an amazing community of people who were supporting and loving and moving out to L.A. it was really hard to find that. Especially just starting off my teen years.

I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.

I was about 15 years old when I moved to the Bay area.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

My view was, if I didn't like Boulder, I'd keep going west, except I never really wanted to live in the Bay Area.

I had been living out of a suitcase in hotels, and that was getting to me, so I bought a new house in Hyderabad. I wanted the comfort and warmth of my own home when I return from hectic shootings.

My dad was going to graduate school at Columbia, in New York, so we moved there. After he graduated, we ended up settling in New York, so I grew up there.

I've travelled a lot across this country because of my father's job - I've had that experience.

It'd be nice to settle down in a great home instead of just moving around and stuff like that.

When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

I was born in Cochin August 27, 1980. Since my father is in the Navy, he was often transferred to other cities. When I was nine years old, we moved on to New Delhi.

It was really tough being 14 and moving away from home.

'What if this funny-looking youngster from Missouri is talented after all?' I think it was a nice place to grow up, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

I moved to Shaker Heights from Pittsburgh, PA, just before I turned 10.

I first came to Mumbai when I was very young. My mom is from here, and dad always had some work around here, so Mumbai always felt like a second home. I moved here when I was 16 and went to junior college here as well.

Especially in America, when you move away from home, sometimes you get disconnected with your grandparents, your friends you grew up with.

I'm from New Jersey. But I went to school in Los Angeles and all across the country. So, I can totally connect with missing home.