Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

I was born in London but brought up in Wales from the age of two.

I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.

I was born in Singapore, but I left at four so memories are hazy.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

We left Germany when I was 11.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were determined to raise my two sisters and me according to Afghan traditions.

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn't have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day.

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C.

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.