Quotes About When I Was Young

#1. People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won't make a make a gentleman now-a-days. It seems to me that none but brewers, and tallow-chandlers, and lawyers go into Parliament now.

Anthony Trollope

#2. 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

#3. When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

Daphne Oz

#4. She's everything I wanted when I was young and everything I distrust now that I'm not.

Walter Kirn

#5. When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#6. I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.

Bruce Parry

#7. I don't really want to start my career again, and I don't like Hollywood. If it had happened to me when I was young, yes, I'd be there like a shot, but I wouldn't like to go there and hang out and go to auditions at my age.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

#8. What can I say about 'The Lost Boys'? Oh my God: I love it; I hate it; I'm scared of it. I had a massive crush on them all when I was young. And I wanted to be a vampire. It's so stylized; it's the type of film I grew up on. To me, it's always at the top.

Jaime Winstone

#9. I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

Sarah McLachlan

#10. When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.

Bel Powley

#11. Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

Elliott Carter

#12. Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

Miep Gies

#13. 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

#14. The beautiful memories of tofu from when I was young

Onew

#15. You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young.

Robert Winston

#16. Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.

Harbhajan Singh

#17. When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.

Nuala O'Faolain

#19. When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.

Tom Douglas

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

Maria Lassnig

#21. I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

#22. My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.

Derek Ridgers

#23. My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it had a lot of gay literature and art books and he wanted me to be taken care of by the young gays and lesbians who worked for him.

Margaret Cho

#24. If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.

Lan Samantha Chang

#25. Do you remember the Lady of Shalott? The mirror crack'd from side to side: 'The doom has come upon me,' cried the Lady of Shalott. Well, that's what she looked like. People laugh at Tennyson nowadays, but the Lady of Shalott always thrilled me when I was young and it still does.

Agatha Christie

#26. As part of my Christmas present I'd be giving chickens to a family in Nepal through the Heifer Foundation. I think they expanded my world when I was young to know sort of the other issues that were going on globally.

Serinda Swan

#27. I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.

Ronaldo

#28. 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

#29. I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

Jane Siberry

#30. A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.

Ellen Potter

#31. 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

#32. When I was young, men like my father would often come home and put on their smoking jacket over their perfectly ordinary trousers, as a way of relaxing in the evening.

Julian Fellowes

#33. I am just making up for being far too sensible when I was young.

Robert Black

#34. I've never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I'd get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. Sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So, I've never had like a normal job.

Seth Rogen

#35. When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#36. I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

Tony Gilroy

#37. When I was young, I used to watch a lot of old movies and read a lot of books, and I was always amazed at how every one of them had some helpless damsel who was oh so happy to fall into the hero's arms, and I'm not that kind of girl"- Yvonne

Alexander Ferrick

#38. Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm. I try to brush it off as I've brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father when I was young, as I've brushed off so much since Benton has known me.

Patricia Cornwell

#39. My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

George Weah

#40. 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

#41. When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

Tadashi Shoji

#42. 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

#43. I'm very much disciplined because I'm more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.

Bernie Mac

#44. I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity that I'd always thought I was

Gerard Jones

#45. When I was young, a teen, fresh as a glass of water, my first lover said I should break the mirror and never seek on out again. He was right, of course.

Chloe Thurlow

#46. I have always aspired towards other people's looks. When I was young, I loved teddy boys; I thought they looked wonderful. Then I was a cowboy in Arizona, really for the clothes! I had a ranch for five years; I had chaps made of bearskin.

Nicholas Haslam

#47. I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

Rainbow Rowell

#48. When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.

Ruth Bernhard

#49. I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

George Bernard Shaw

#50. My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.

Bow Wow

#51. I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.

Gwen Stefani

#52. I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

Ned Vizzini

#53. When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

Maggie Q

#54. I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright.

Danny Dyer

#55. When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.

Kim Gordon

#56. When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

Woody Allen

#57. I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Paulo Coelho

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

Ciaran Hinds

#59. He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

Jane Birkin

#60. I think I did a lot of humorous films when I was young, and they were No. 1 films.

Jane Birkin

#61. I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor.

Rob Reiner

#62. 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

#63. I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#64. When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

Robert Frost

#65. As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

Chuck Palahniuk

#66. Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

Ellen Barkin

#67. Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.

Woody Allen

#68. I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

Philip Schultz

#69. 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

#70. When I was young I had this blonde haircut that was shaved on one side with a rat tail and tram lines in it, but I don't really regret that. It was really elaborate but I was 12 and it looked cool. It was like what people in Iceland do.

Kemp Muhl

#71. As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

Jane Fonda

#72. When I was young, I dreamed of playing for Ajax and Arsenal. Both dreams have come true.

Thomas Vermaelen

#73. I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

Charles Olson

#74. I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young.

Edward Hirsch

#75. 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

#76. Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#77. I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

Andre Benjamin

#78. After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

Ethel Waters

#79. 'Dark Side of the Moon' was one of my father's favorite records, which I obviously didn't understand when I was young. To be honest, I don't really have too many memories of hearing it, but I definitely have memories of the cover.

Apparat

#80. 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

#81. When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.

Isabella Rossellini

#82. I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.

Bradford Cox

#83. When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked.

Anthony Horowitz

#84. When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

Marlee Matlin

#85. I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

Christopher Parker

#86. I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Meryl Streep

#87. 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

#88. I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

Ingmar Bergman

#89. My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Matt Damon

#90. 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

#91. When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it. And you do that by loving the wacky, endlessly optimistic, enthusiasticall y uninhibited free spirit that is the essence of style, the quintessence of heart, and uniquely you.

Cecelie Berry

#92. When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

Robert Kiyosaki

#93. People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its quite acceptable to be anti-intellectual.

Joan Vass

#94. I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.

George Lucas

#95. I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

John Lydon

#96. 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

#97. There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

Johnny Depp

#98. When I was young, I thought I was a very smart and learned person.
But now, the more I read, the more I learn, the more I think, the humbler I become.

Shon Mehta

#99. When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

Victor Cruz

#100. I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Rita Dove