Nia Vardalos Quotes

It was hard for me to leave the nest, but my mom is super proud of me. She said, 'You became independent really quickly, and I'm so proud of you,' but she misses me all the same.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

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

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.

I still vividly remember the moment I let go of an embrace with my daughter on her college campus - that, in her opinion, probably lasted far too long. I left the most precious thing in my life in the care of an institution, and that's a very hard thing to do.

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

You live with your family for awhile, and then you move out into the world, and you still have your family; you just don't get to see them every night when you go home for dinner.

The unparalleled love of a mother is always there for the kids, specially when they're growing up and about to leave the family and go away.

I knew I needed to move away when I was 15, but when I got to Norwich, I spent nights crying myself to sleep with homesickness. For any young kid moving away from home, that is the biggest thing you have to deal with.

Real Madrid wanted me to join their academy. It was a big decision to move when I was 15. It's a key age for a youngster, and you're close to your friends and family. But I moved to Madrid, and my family stayed at home. It made me mature earlier than normal. That was a very big decision, and it changed me in a positive way.

It was a big step for me in the Netherlands: to leave home at the age of 18.

I miss my family every single day.

I moved away when I was 17. It's been a mad journey, but I've met and made some incredible friends.

Moving away from home was the biggest challenge. Leaving my mum and my sisters behind, I miss them a lot. But I wanted to do what was best for me, and that was what I did.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

I lived with my parents until I was 25.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

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

I was sad to leave Green Bay, and I don't think I would have left to go anywhere but home to Carolina.

I miss my family all the time.

I can't stand another night in a hotel. Just being away. You miss the kids.

I think that New York liberated me in the sense that I moved here when I was 18, so it was a fresh perspective on life. I had been living in L.A. my whole life and I had never lived anywhere else, so being away from family and really making a name for myself was huge for me.

I think that a lot of people I'm close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home... You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me.