When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don't think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn't really have time to focus on anyone else.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton
When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
‐‐ Daisy Fuentes
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.
‐‐ Jerry B. Jenkins
When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
‐‐ Fiona Apple
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!
‐‐ Rick Danko
When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
‐‐ Larry Ellison
When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
‐‐ C. C. H. Pounder
When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.
‐‐ Alan Sugar
When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams
When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.
‐‐ Jed S. Rakoff
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
‐‐ Brit Marling
When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.
‐‐ Earl Campbell
When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz
When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.
‐‐ Stephen Adly Guirgis
When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.
‐‐ Haylie Duff
When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.
‐‐ Dan Savage
When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan
When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.
‐‐ Flea
When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.
‐‐ Tom Douglas
When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
‐‐ Randy Quaid
When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.
‐‐ Diedrich Bader
When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.
‐‐ Franka Potente
When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar
When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
‐‐ David Suzuki
When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
‐‐ Tahmoh Penikett
When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
‐‐ Phil Daniels
When I was a kid, dressing right and looking good was a priority. As I grew up, I just wanted to stay that way, stick out a bit and have my own thing. That's where white belts and wearing some colors started. So signing with Puma was a great fit for me. I usually travel with nine pairs of golf shoes and 10 belts.
‐‐ Rickie Fowler
When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.
‐‐ Bobby Womack
When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.
‐‐ James Ellroy
When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.
‐‐ Beth Ditto
When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.
‐‐ Norm MacDonald
When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.
‐‐ Michael Biehn
When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore
When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.
‐‐ Daria Werbowy
When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.
‐‐ Lisa Loeb
When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis
When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
‐‐ Dennis Farina
When I was a kid, going to Universal Studios, which was all I wanted to do, all the time, there was a show that was all the monsters, and I loved that show. I was obsessed with Dracula. I was obsessed with Frankenstein. I was obsessed with the Wolfman.
‐‐ Alex Kurtzman
When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
‐‐ Aaron Paul
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.
‐‐ Joe Posnanski
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
‐‐ Joey Ramone
When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.
‐‐ John Barrowman
When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
‐‐ Chuck Pagano
When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.
‐‐ Rocky Carroll
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.
‐‐ Andrew Wyatt
When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.
‐‐ Susan Orlean