All Quotes

I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.
‐‐ Terry Jones

I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
‐‐ Halldor Laxness

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

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

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.
‐‐ Elif Safak

I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
‐‐ Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I spent my entire first pay cheque from 'Cracker,' a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.
‐‐ Josh Hartnett

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything - height, flights - I had no idea why.
‐‐ Shari Arison

I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.
‐‐ Jane Hamilton

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.
‐‐ Danielle de Niese

I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
‐‐ Jeffrey Archer

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.
‐‐ Just Fontaine

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest in his collar, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, 'My goodness.' I thought that was admirable.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
‐‐ Stephen Stills

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.
‐‐ Grace Gummer

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
‐‐ Helen McCrory

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
‐‐ Zoe Lister-Jones

I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like a cloud for ten years, following the food supply. I was a hunter, gatherer, an academic migrant.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
‐‐ Donella Meadows

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
‐‐ Jenna Fischer

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.
‐‐ John Morgridge

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
‐‐ Dennis Rodman

I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
‐‐ Danica Patrick

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.
‐‐ Hector Tobar

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.
‐‐ Nell Newman

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
‐‐ Bruce Davison

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
‐‐ Venus Williams

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.
‐‐ Elisabeth Shue

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.
‐‐ Stephanie Klein

I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
‐‐ FKA twigs

I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.
‐‐ Kyrsten Sinema

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
‐‐ Ronnie Hawkins

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

I spent one semester in Air Force ROTC, as I wanted to be a pilot.
‐‐ Katie Jacobs Stanton

I spent over 10 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, serving overseas, serving in the Middle East. And let me tell you, if you're a terrorist and you want to come to the United States, the worst possible way to do it is as a refugee. You'll go through a year and a half to two years of vetting.
‐‐ Evan McMullin

I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say.
‐‐ Evan McMullin

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
‐‐ Larry Rivers

I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

I spent seven years in France. Then, I went to Asia for five years. I came to London in 1984 and then America in 1985. In 1991, I opened my first restaurant in New York City.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I spent several months patrolling Al Dora district in Baghdad in 2006 with the 101st Airborne. It's a tough neighborhood. There's a lot of militias operating there, including a lot of Shiite militias, which are backed by Iran.
‐‐ Tom Cotton