All Quotes

When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood style.
‐‐ Mary-Kate Olsen

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
‐‐ Abraham Joshua Heschel

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.
‐‐ Kevin Henkes

When I was young, I ate Ho Hos every day.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.
‐‐ Billy Graham

When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach

When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
‐‐ Ireland Baldwin

When I was young, I'd watch guys on 'The Tonight Show', Buddy Hackett, guys like that, where all they'd be is funny. Later, I remember, on 'Late Night with Letterman', I remember he'd have Jay Leno and Richard Lewis as first guests and the entire point was to entertain and be funny, and I think talk shows have kind of lost that.
‐‐ Norm MacDonald

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.
‐‐ Edmund White

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
‐‐ Marina Warner

When I was young, I did Baby Guess and Guess Kids - Paul Marciano saw me when I was a baby and decided I was going to be his next whatever. After Guess Kids, my mom made me stop. She would not let me sign with an agency until I was 17 because she wanted me to be a normal kid and accept myself for who I was.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.
‐‐ Martin Bouygues

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
‐‐ Cai Guo-Qiang

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
‐‐ Lana Del Rey

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.
‐‐ Sebastian Arcelus

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
‐‐ Matt de la Pena

When I was young, I had a favorite movie star. One day, I saw one of his movies, and it was bad, and he was bad in it. I could tell he didn't care and only did it for the money. I felt betrayed. I never watched another one of his movies again.
‐‐ Michael Jai White

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.
‐‐ D'Angelo

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
‐‐ Yves Rossy

When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.
‐‐ John Otto

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
‐‐ J. Tillman

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
‐‐ Ze Frank

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.
‐‐ Michael Jordan

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
‐‐ Otis Blackwell

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.
‐‐ Jonathan Stroud

When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.
‐‐ Nick Tosches

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
‐‐ Arturo Toscanini

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
‐‐ Patti Smith

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

When I was young, I liked to be acknowledged in class by little gestures such as a small red star for doing something good. Now that I'm older, I still want to be acknowledged for good work.
‐‐ Chen Guangbiao

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

When I was young I lost everything.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books.
‐‐ Judy Blume

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.
‐‐ John Woo

When I was young, I loved shopping at a store on Rodeo Drive called Lina Lee. Shopping there made me feel so special.
‐‐ Kris Jenner

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then, I kind of knew that was wrong, but I still thought, 'Wow, here's my chance to do something, to be of service to my country.'
‐‐ David McFadden

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.
‐‐ Lina Wertmuller

When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
‐‐ Mary Szybist

When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles, rowing across lochs, or escaping over moors of purple heather. Even those Scots were hard to find. For at school, we recited poetry according to the set texts the teachers taught us.
‐‐ Theresa Breslin

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
‐‐ Ciaran Hinds