Childhood Abroad Quotes

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

My father was a diplomat and served as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries. I was born in London and grew up there and studied and lived in a hostel throughout in London and became a barrister.

I was born in Wisconsin, but I quickly moved to Nigeria as a toddler.

My parents moved to the states when I was 6, so I was raised by my grandma in the Dominican Republic and didn't see them again until I was 10.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

I grew up all over the world, including countries such as Sweden, Norway, U.S.A., and Kuwait.

Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad.

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from 'Psycho.' My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.