All Quotes

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
‐‐ Eavan Boland

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.
‐‐ Emily Rios

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels bad about it to this day, but I feel worse.
‐‐ Jon Heder

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.
‐‐ Craig Brown

When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.
‐‐ Stephanie Beacham

When I was young, I used to tell my mum that she had to get me on the TV, but then modelling just sort of happened.
‐‐ Alyssa Sutherland

When I was young, I used to watch videos of Ali boxing, with my dad. It set me on the road. I wanted to be like Ali. I wanted to have my own Nicki shuffle and everything.
‐‐ Nicola Adams

When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
‐‐ Bonnie Tyler

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.
‐‐ Miranda Kerr

When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

When I was young, I wanted to be the face of a makeup campaign or a hair campaign, so that's something that I've always dreamed of that hopefully comes along. And then obviously starring with Ryan Gosling in a movie wouldn't be so bad, either.
‐‐ Emeraude Toubia

When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
‐‐ Brooke Burke

When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and dress up as a mermaid for the cover of his album 'Siren.' It was love at first sight.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
‐‐ Maria Lassnig

When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God.
‐‐ Phil Jackson

When I was young, I was everywhere.
‐‐ David Edwards

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman

When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.
‐‐ Sigmar Polke

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get starstruck over. I don't know what I'd do if I met him - I'd be in shock! That's my dream.
‐‐ Elena Delle Donne

When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a '70s version of Cher.
‐‐ Patti Smith

When I was young, I was on a real hot streak with 'Crazy Climber.' There was a good three-week span where I couldn't get that game out of my head. I could not get back to the arcade fast enough to try and climb up there and not get kicked by a potted plant this time. That one got under my skin.
‐‐ Rich Moore

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.
‐‐ Ruud Gullit

When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
‐‐ Maidie Norman

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

When I was young, I was religious.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

When I was young, I was teased mercilessly by my classmates for being a redhead. I wasn't particularly well coordinated either, which made me a bit of a liability in P.E.
‐‐ Renee Olstead

When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick me up.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
‐‐ Erik Satie

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.
‐‐ Emil Zatopek

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.
‐‐ Kimberly Willis Holt

When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.
‐‐ Steve Vai

When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea.
‐‐ Mike Pence

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

When I was young, I went to the Sinai and worked as a waitress.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.
‐‐ Mats Sundin

When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
‐‐ Carmen Busquets

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch