Quotes starting with W Page 1957

“When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.”

Men Children Humor Religious Witch Cattle Bewitched

“When I was a child they used to take us to this beach, and I would look and look at the sea, knowing that where I came from was somewhere out there. I saw it as an island. A small German island with my town, my house, my parents, exactly as I left it all." She stared across the table - dark intense eyes under a black fringe streaked with grey. " You don't have a map in your head as a child. Later, you have the globe - the seas and the shapes - and you can't ever get back to that emptiness, that mystery. Knowing that there are other places, but not knowing where they are, or how to get there.”

Growing Up Childhood

Author:Penelope Lively

Source: City of the Mind

“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.”

History Oppression African American Blackness

Author:Bonnie Greer

Source: A Parallel Life

“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.”

Wells Children Stills British Traditional Vegetables Picky

Author:Vince Cable

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”

Ifs Children I Can Seems Happens Morning Adults Get Up Warning Foreign Travel

Author:Neil Gaiman

Source: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

“When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.”

World Children Hard Wanted Fighting Winning Stars Race Team Cups World Cup

Author:Hermann Maier

“When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people. And now he was gone.”

People Children Problem Father Gone Failing Normal Smart Dinner Math Checks Generous Sunshine Honorable Bathroom Thunder Petty Exile Homework Invincible Bolts Single Word

Author:Rachel Vincent

Source: Alpha

“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”

Children Book Lost Pleasure Yearning Fulfilled Nostalgic Children Book

Author:Diane Setterfield

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.”

Children Bigs School Common Sky Dropping Appearing Overhead Bombers Taunting

Author:Sophia Loren

“When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He will be a complete reject of the society; he/she could not raise his or her voice to speak in the public. So what happened between that time and now? That time when a public officer, prison or customs officer caught in corruption hides his face in shame amongst his peers, he just couldn't come out publicly. Today, when they come back, they get chieftaincy titles, they are received in grand style, cows are killed, they ride on white horses.”

“When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

Men Children

Author:Shane Smith

“When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.”

People Feels Wells Children Enough Feelings Reality Emotion Seeing Adults Complicated Upset Hiding Layers True Feelings Subterfuge Hiding Things

Author:Wallace Shawn

“When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday, but that doesn't seem so important. What's important to me is getting to live my life as an artist, and making my passion my work. I have never wanted to be anything other than an actor and performer, and each day that I get to do that is a day well spent.”

World Wells Children Important Bigs Seems Would Be Wanted Artist Passion Actors Stars Each Day Someday Performers Living My Life My Passion What's Important World Famous Day Well Spent

Author:Jinkx Monsoon

“When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.”

Children Childhood Quiet Protected

Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic

“When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.”

Years Firsts Children Littles Film Order Steps Cutting My Friends Red Glasses Boxes Eight Cinema First Steps Discs

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.”

Kind Children Bigs Rooms Edges Fascinated Looking Back Living On Posters Dean Admirer Living On The Edge

Author:Boris Becker

“When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.”

Children Hated

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.”

Wells Children Persons Stills Done Sports Saws Imagine News Isolated Imagine That Jakarta

Author:Andrea Hirata

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!”

Men Children Understood Wow Hackers Bvb Childish Things

Author:Terry Pratchett

“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”

Knows Way Children Has Beens Ends Faces Three Known Adults And Love Mirrors Spokes Face To Face Hope And Love Faith Hope Faith Hope And Love

Author:Chico Xavier

“When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.”

Children Wish Wise Adults Spokes Old And Wise

Author:Robert Muller

“When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.”

Children Childish Things

Author:Philip K. Dick

Source: The Man in the High Castle

“When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.”

Knows Mean Children Littles Helping Universe Realizing Achieve Towns Helping Others Immortal Family And Friends Good Health Exam Center Of The Universe Delta Close Family

Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

Source: Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize

“When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.”

Children Used Cry

Author:Gwen John

“When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more fun to wander than to be guided, and you could do it in those days with freedom and without paranoia. In similar fashion, I try to allow the reader room to wander, even to meander, to almost lose themselves and their grip of the narrative.”

Trying Children Used Fun Loses Lines Rooms Fashion Wall Reader Stones Wander Narrative Dry Paranoia Railway Barns Stone Walls

Author:Suhayl Saadi

“When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.”

Ifs Want Children Said Wanted Actors Mom My Mom Braces

Author:James Franco

“When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.”

Children Wanted Boys Horse Raises Ships Pirate Cabins Wyoming Pirate Ships

Author:Sadie Jones

“When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.”

Trying Firsts Children Made Wanted Found Simple Watches Laughing Comedy Office Clubs Boredom Attacking Comedy Clubs

Author:Dylan Moran

“When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.”

World Children Stills Wanted America Lost Space Accepting South Mars Heartbroken Dinosaurs South America

Author:Brian Blessed

“When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.”

Children Tree Projects Housing Philadelphia Christmas Tree

Author:Bill Cosby

“When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.”

Mean Children Said Kids Black Modern Mourning Riot Modern Society

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of disconnect between my sense of imagination and the world around me, which I don't think is common for Americans. It forces you to learn to look at the world through other people's eyes.”

People Thinking World Looks Children Book Different Eye Reading Force Imagination Common Filled Reading Books Foreigners

Author:Laila Lalami

“When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.”

People Men Children Song Song And Dance Mimicking

Author:Jason Mantzoukas

“When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.”

Needs Children Stills Hands Kids Wanted Issues Type Involved Disease Summer Foundation Medical Camps Get Involved Kidneys Summer Camp Health Issues Kidney Disease

Author:Sarah Hyland

“When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.”

Children Stills Shy

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.”

Children School Three Acting Week Modern Stage Singing Evening Ballet Three Times

Author:Michelle Dockery

“When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.”

Ifs Children Knowing Enjoyed Knowing More

Author:Oliver Stone

“When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.”

Ifs Children Water Jokes Buying

Author:Assata Shakur

“When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.”

Trying Children Book Matter Stories Pride Evening Afternoon Impress Librarian Nancy Nancy Drew

Author:Kathleen Norris

“When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.”

Thinking Children Dream Would Be Remember Goal Achieve Football Proud One Day Unbelievable Stadiums Footballer Milan

Author:Andriy Shevchenko

“When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.”

Children Kids Used Girl Fun Tree Blind Curious Apples Climbs This Girl

Author:Stevie Wonder

“When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.”

Men Inspirational Children Book Ends Dream Song Saws Hero Singing Hundred Comic Gentleman Movie Dreamer Comic Book Ladies And Gentlemen Saw Movie

Author:Elvis Presley

“When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.”

Children Important Sea Affair Fishes Swim Children Love

Author:P. L. Travers

“When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I could not do many of the things that most people take for granted, such as looking someone in the eye or deciphering a person's body language, and only acquired these skills with much effort over time.”

People Children Persons Body Eye Language Social Effort Skills Behavior Intelligent Granted Labels Body Language Repetitive Anti Social

Author:Daniel Tammet

“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.”

Children Tree Cards Weekend Cream Preparing December Decorating Brandy Wreaths Peppermint

Author: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.”

Children Father Boys Taught Dad Prepared All Time Be Prepared Fists Like A Boy

Author:Camille Paglia

“When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.”

Ifs Way Children Motivational Would Be Used Asks Father Five Failing Week Brother Asking Tables Dinner My Brother Disappointed Dinner Table Redefining

Author:Sara Blakely

“When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.”

Thinking Should Children Mother Night Laughing Doors Middle Bed Sick Wake Up Middle Of The Night Impeccable

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating evolution. In other words, less creed, more roll with changing ways of seeing. Maybe adapting is a better way to see this.”

Way Children Parent Seeing Creation Taught Evolution Creeds Better Ways Literal Adapting

Author:Frank Schaeffer

“When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.”

Thinking Way Wells Kind Children Said Problem Girl Parent Community Religious Bottom Best Way Climbs They Said Ladders Up To You Stimulation Religious Community

Author:Marianne Williamson

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