International Childhood Quotes

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.

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 a little bit in Germany and then in Switzerland, then in France, the United States and in England, and so it is weird.

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

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

I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.

I'm from Scotland, one of four daughters, and we grew up moving every few years between Scotland, Portugal, Colombia and Scotland again.

I lived in Europe until I was 9, really.

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