All Quotes

When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands.
‐‐ Aditi Shankardass

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.
‐‐ Alek Wek

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.
‐‐ Soulja Boy

When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
‐‐ Taylor Wilson

When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
‐‐ Gary Numan

When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.
‐‐ Christopher Masterson

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
‐‐ Becky G

When I was 11, I developed a new symptom - the worst one yet: I had to touch people before I talked to them. When I say 'had to,' that's exactly what I mean: if I didn't touch them first, I literally couldn't form the words.
‐‐ Tim Howard

When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.
‐‐ Lucy Punch

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid

When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became really close to my stepmother, and I am still very close to my brothers. My stepmother is the actress Shirley Jones, who was in 'The Partridge Family' alongside me, so we worked together for years.
‐‐ David Cassidy

When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
‐‐ Brian Blessed

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
‐‐ Maj Sjowall

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.
‐‐ Rod Carew

When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful.
‐‐ Andrea Navedo

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.
‐‐ Tracy Austin

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

When I was 11 or 12 - a young boy in Japan - one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant. I had never been to one, and it was very memorable. Back then, sushi was expensive and hard to come by, not like today, when there's a sushi restaurant on every street corner and you can buy it in supermarkets.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.
‐‐ Lauren DeStefano

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.
‐‐ Chris Ware

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.
‐‐ Sondra Radvanovsky

When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.
‐‐ Raini Rodriguez

When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.
‐‐ David Crosby

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.
‐‐ Chris Brown

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.
‐‐ Diane Lane

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.
‐‐ Allegra Huston

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
‐‐ Johnny Mathis

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.
‐‐ Anna Kournikova

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.
‐‐ Sara Paxton

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.
‐‐ Renee Olstead

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.
‐‐ Alain Robert

When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard - and now she's super supportive.
‐‐ Nicola Peltz

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
‐‐ Jennie Finch

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.
‐‐ Donald Hall

When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.
‐‐ Princess Eugenie of York

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.
‐‐ Evelyn Glennie

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.
‐‐ Jake Epstein

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
‐‐ David Mackay

When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.
‐‐ Jessica De Gouw

When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.
‐‐ Jillian Rose Reed

When I was 12, I was taking batting practice with an aluminum bat at Tiger Stadium. I don't know where it landed exactly, but upper deck somewhere. Yeah, people were surprised.
‐‐ Prince Fielder

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
‐‐ Imogen Heap

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
‐‐ Jill Scott

When I was 12, my dad took me to see 'You Got Served.' I walked out a whole different person.
‐‐ Shameik Moore

When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
‐‐ Young Thug

When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
‐‐ Facundo Pieres

When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
‐‐ Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.
‐‐ Shaun White

When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.
‐‐ Robert P. McCulloch

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler