Frequent Moves Quotes

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot.

I moved frequently because my dad was in the army, so I was always new in school. I think if you've ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it's a good experience for everyone to have, to feel like they're not noticed, because it teaches you to be empathetic.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

I grew up around whites, I grew up around Jews, I grew up around blacks, I grew up around Hispanics. We moved a lot.

I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.

When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

I was always taken in and out of school.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

Even before I was in New York, I couldn't even count how many places I lived in L.A. Definitely over 10.

I went to seven different elementary schools.

I have studied in 14 schools.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached.

My home life, growing up, was like tumbling inside a washing machine as I shuttled around the middle of Kentucky with my mother. She was never content to stay in one place, or with one man, for too long. She was as smart as she was independent, though, and always landed some job that brought in a little money.

I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.