All Quotes

When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
‐‐ Pippa Middleton

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.
‐‐ Peter Singer

When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.
‐‐ Jesse Ball

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.
‐‐ Roxane Gay

When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.'
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.
‐‐ Immanuel Velikovsky

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
‐‐ Linda Grant

When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'
‐‐ Kate Williams

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.
‐‐ Patti Davis

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
‐‐ E. B. White

When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.
‐‐ Daniel Humm

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.
‐‐ Gary Neville

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
‐‐ Harmony Korine

When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since my dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, I lived in a different home every couple of years.
‐‐ Kimberly Willis Holt

When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.'
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
‐‐ Vince Cable

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.
‐‐ Nick Flynn

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
‐‐ James Rothman

When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.
‐‐ Lyndsy Fonseca

When I was a dancer, I was acting.
‐‐ Sofia Boutella

When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.
‐‐ James E. Faust

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.
‐‐ Pele

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
‐‐ Tabitha Soren

When I was a freshman and sophomore, I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then, in my junior and senior years, my dad got booed every time he took me out.
‐‐ Steve Alford

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.
‐‐ Darrell Royal

When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do any theater stuff. Actually, I didn't do it with my school. I did theater with this thing called Teen Source.
‐‐ Shanley Caswell

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.
‐‐ Carson Daly

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
‐‐ John Lasseter

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.
‐‐ Alek Wek

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.
‐‐ Michael Learned

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
‐‐ Agnes Smedley

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.
‐‐ Eiza Gonzalez

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.
‐‐ Lina Wertmuller

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
‐‐ M. H. Abrams

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz