Year Old Quotes

#1. We're Garde,' I say, correcting this billion-year-old godlike energy force, because what the hell, we've come this far. 'We're here for your help.

Pittacus Lore

#2. A four year old girl was overheard whispering in her newborn baby brother's ear: "Baby," she whispers, "tell me what God sounds like. I'm starting to forget." -- Between the Dreaming and the Coming True

Robert Benson

#3. My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won't mind being 70, but I want people to say, "You're 70?"

Michelle Obama

#4. What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

Bill Burr

#5. I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

Gunter Grass

#6. You just told those people that I'm a sexual deviant," he said through clenched teeth. "And apparently, one with the intelligence of a ten-year-old. Those stories will be on the Internet by this afternoon.

Julie James

#7. I got so schooled this year.
By a nine year old.
He taught me that it's okay to live life
a little backwards.

Colleen Hoover

#8. I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.

Jim Lampley

#9. And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-old Italian boys on bikes.

Kate Atkinson

#10. We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.

Hugh Laurie

#11. Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.

Jill Sobule

#12. In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.

Evan Osnos

#13. Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

Carrie Coon

#14. I didn't feel like a man just then. I felt like a five-year-old boy who didn't want to do anything except play in a pile of leaves. A five-year-old boy with a greedy heart who wanted his grandmother to live forever.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#15. It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid.

Nicholas Kristof

#16. In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

P. J. O'Rourke

#17. ten-year-old Buick. I don't have a license; I don't even

Suzanne Jenkins

#18. I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

Earl Campbell

#19. I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.

Charles Schwab

#20. I tried to interest my daughter in dancing, but she didn't take to it. As a five-year-old, she got lost on the way to her first class. After that she didn't go to dance class again.

Nita Ambani

#21. My hands clench at my sides. I cannot adequately express how tickled I am to know that I wasted four years pursuing a business degree at Oregon State so I could scan and file papers while my incompetent twenty-four-year-old boss supervises.

Winter Renshaw

#22. A solid 90 percent of my readers are teenage girls. You are a force. You influence art and fashion and culture. You're eight different kinds of cool. You get overlooked far too much, but my 17 year old soul loves you endlessly.

Kiera Cass

#23. Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home.

Reid Scott

#24. Stupid Sixteen year old kid falling from the sky! I'm late!

Rick Riordan

#25. Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?

Warren Spector

#26. Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

Nathan Fielder

#27. Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she had an affair with Democratic front-runner John Kerry. The woman added, 'I would never cheat on Bill Clinton.'

Conan O'Brien

#28. There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Arthur Hailey

#29. ... there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old ...

John Irving

#30. Susannah." My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah ... "
Yeah. In my dreams.
In real life, the voice calling my name wasn't a bit masculine. That's because it belonged to a twelve-year-old boy.

Meg Cabot

#31. Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.

Ken Buck

#32. God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

Mark Lowry

#33. I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

Kanye West

#34. Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#35. Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow ... When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!" it doesn't carry the same weight as when a mother yells those words to a child ... Even if you don't physically abuse young children, you can still drive them nuts with your words.

Mary Blakely

#36. When I first used this move on my nine-year-old brother, he started to cry and exclaimed that I was cheating.

Maxen Tarafa

#37. The whole notion that I don't appeal to the demographic - all my fans are young men. Someone asked me the other day, "So are your shows just full of 40-year-old single women?" I'm like, "I would be rich if that were true."

Jen Kirkman

#38. I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.

Edith Stein

#39. Sergeant Paul Ramoneda, a twenty-eight-year-old baker with the Ninth Food Service Squadron, was one of the first to reach the bomber.

Eric Schlosser

#40. I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.

Alanis Morissette

#41. The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

Georgette Heyer

#42. I block the internet because I'm a two-year-old and have no self-control. I don't even look at email or hop on the internet. Once I'm down that rabbit hole, the day is lost. Again, I'm two.

Darynda Jones

#43. I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

Karen O

#44. Shaylene knew of three children in Norwalk besides Lolek who came down with the fever during the past few years. One of those children, a four-year-old girl, tragically died because of it.

Steven A. Hall

#45. I really loathe [the bumper sticker] 'Proud Parent of a Terrific Kid!'
Why not a bumper sticker for the unlucky parents, something like: 'My Fifteen-Year-Old's in Detox and Not Speaking to Any of Us' or 'My Kid Robbed a 7-Eleven and is in a Center for Youthful Offenders.

Celia Rivenbark

#46. Trust should be like the feeling of a one year old baby
when you throw him in the air,he laughs
because he knows you will catch him;

Abhishek Thakore

#47. Sexual preferences develop, evolve and change over a lifetime. [ ... ] Without opportunities for sexual exploration and discovery, how is a 19 to 20-year-old to learn what he or she likes and how his or her body reacts?

Darrel Ray

#48. It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#49. Einstein once said, "If you can't explain a concept to a six-year-old, you don't fully understand it.

Claudia Welch

#50. My father, whose work I adore ... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

Jamie Wyeth

#51. It was the 60th anniversary of 'Face the Nation.' During his interview, President Obama said, 'Our country doesn't fear the future. We grab it.' Nothing says you grab the future like going on a 60-year-old show hosted by a 77-year-old-man to speak to a 90-year-old audience.

Jimmy Fallon

#52. Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

Neal Stephenson

#53. With the blood dripping from her lips, with her blood spattered white dress, and with her pale skin, she is just a horrifyingly lovely and a breathtakingly attractive sixteen-year-old girl living in Hell. Nothing wrong with that, right?

Cameron Jace

#54. That was in nineteen and thirty-one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I don't think I'll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around that bend and then flames lightin up the snow and the trees and the night.

Cormac McCarthy

#55. In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

Robert Breault

#56. The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.

Mary Gaitskill

#57. I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?

Elise Andrew

#58. I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.

Megyn Kelly

#59. Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

Nate Berkus

#60. You stole his truck?"
"Borrowed," Prophet corrected. "Remy thought of it when I took him home."
"Did you just blame a fifteen-year-old kid for why you stole - "
" - borrowed - "
" - a truck?"
Prophet shrugged. "Little bit.

S.E. Jakes

#61. THE MISCONCEPTION: Men who have sex with RealDolls are insane, and women who marry eighty-year-old billionaires are gold diggers. THE TRUTH: The RealDoll and rich old sugar daddies are both supernormal releasers.

David McRaney

#62. My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place!

Martina Navratilova

#63. What the photon is it?" "Oh, just some five-million-year-old tape that's being broadcast at us." "A what? A recording?

Douglas Adams

#64. I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

Victoria Jackson

#65. But you should never put a fifteen-year-old on a witness stand in a courtroom filled with a bunch of people he knows and expect a lot of tears.

Gillian Flynn

#66. Walter Mischel and his students exposed four-year-old children to a cruel dilemma. They were given a choice between a small reward (one Oreo), which they could have at any time, or a larger reward (two cookies) for which they had to wait 15 minutes under difficult conditions.

Daniel Kahneman

#67. Well, yeah, but she looks, like, twenty-two. And she acts like a four-year-old.

Derek Landy

#68. And isn't it actually unbelievable that one simple name encompasses all of this? The fetus in the belly, the infant on the changing table, the forty-year-old in front of the computer, the old man in the chair, the corpse on the bench?

Karl Ove Knausgard

#69. A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

Thomas A. Edison

#70. The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.

Colleen McCullough

#71. What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.

Twyla Tharp

#72. It's heartbreaking when you hear a kid buying a ticket for ... I don't know, whatever movie you're up against. And you see them sneaking into your film. It's just heartbreaking. But in the spirit of full disclosure, that is what I did as an 11-year-old sneaking into 'Stripes.'

Todd Phillips

#73. Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives.
The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David's answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.

Kim Harrison

#74. My mind was not driving the car. If you doubt me, try being a twelve-year-old boy with your biggest sexual fantasy punning you against a wall mostly naked in a pool, and then tell me I'm lying

Eli Easton

#75. The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

Tom Morello

#76. I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

Hope Solo

#77. Miller pushed her down at his feet and pulled out his small handgun. He checked the clip and then the safety and held it menacingly across his chest. He looked like a little twelve year old gangster. It was adorable.

Rachel Higginson

#78. We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

Dee Hock

#79. A theologically astute, immature Christian is like a 5-year-old flying an Apache helicopter.

Kevin DeYoung

#80. Grab the work when it comes, my man. Your competition is now a fourteen-year-old in pajamas with the username Truth-ninja-12 who believes fact-checking a story is reading his subject's Twitter feed. Be afraid.

Marisha Pessl

#81. What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

Spike Jonze

#82. An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

Carl Van Vechten

#83. I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.

Michael Angarano

#84. All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

Brandy Norwood

#85. You can hardly expect us to allow a nineteen-year-old assassin to parade into our kingdom and start yapping orders, regardless of bloodline.

Sarah J. Maas

#86. My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

Bill Cosby

#87. He fell for an eighteen-year old girl with one of those deepdown spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going.

Toni Morrison

#88. I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.

Ashley Greene

#89. I discovered the fun of genre is ... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a ... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Matt Reeves

#90. When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

Bob Odenkirk

#91. My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

Twiggy

#92. How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

Nadia Scrieva

#93. Racism isn't born, folks. It's taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list.

Denis Leary

#94. Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six year old?

Yara

#95. Let them know the real me. All my weaknesses. Yes, I'll make plans to do that. Right on the heels of your announcement that Izzy Goodnight isn't a girl anymore but a twenty-six-year-old woman who likes her nipples pinched.

Tessa Dare

#96. When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

Lauren Hutton

#97. This ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations ...

Christopher McDougall

#98. If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense.

Jennifer Lawrence

#99. That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.

Ray Romano

#100. The male who'd just arrived laughed as he embraced Qhuinn. You have such a way with words, cousin. I would say ... trucker meets sailor crossed with a twelve-year-old.

J.R. Ward