Quotes starting with W Page 1977

“When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.”

World Firsts Book Different Feelings Black White Five Pages First Time Miracle This Day New World Anticipation Ink Relish Binding

Author:Jennifer Weiner

Source: Good in Bed

“When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.”

Thinking Five Actresses

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!”

Way School Five Auditions

Author:Logan Lerman

“When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.”

School Gone Five Singing Dancing Touring Singing And Dancing

Author:Michael Jackson

“When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.”

Play Song Father Parent Five Taught Christmas Guidance Old Fashioned Ukulele

Author:Tony Visconti

“When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.”

Bigs Party Five Fronts Six Blue Suits Bugs Collars Blue Collar Big Families Scarface

Author:Jencarlos Canela

“When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.”

Years Wanted Five Five Years Five Year Olds

Author:Debra Wilson

“When I was five years old I was molested and just, you know. I remember feeling, literally right before it happened, I just could not believe that this person was going to do this to me. That thing followed me all my life. The shame of thinking my molestation was my fault - it led me to believe I wasn't worth anything.”

Thinking Knows Years Believe Persons Feelings Remember Five Happened Shame Faults Five Years Five Year Olds Molestation

Author:Mary J. Blige

“When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.”

Years Humor Running Funny Five Streets Horse Rounds Five Years Purple Merry Five Year Olds Merry Go Round Gunshots

Author:Steven Wright

“When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."”

Way Years Said Song Five Radio Five Years Cousin Five Year Olds My Cousin

Author:Boots Riley

“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”

Writing Years Kind Parent Five Magic Casts Five Years Chests Spells Five Year Olds

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.”

“When I was five, all I wanted to be was a superstar. Not even lying to you. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I wanted to be famous.”

Lying Superstar

Author:D-Pryde

“When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.”

Want Actors Five Mom My Mom

Author:Rick Gonzalez

“When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.”

World Five My Favorite Favorites Things Salmon Smoked Salmon

Author:Oliver Sacks

Source: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

“When I was five. That's when I started to love film.”

Film Five Love Films Ukulele

Author:Dario Argento

“When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.”

I Can Felt Behinds Tears London Flying Rome Flew Bursting Bursting Into Tears

Author:Robert Pattinson

“When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.”

Shows Jobs Mother Class Dying New York Lows Cancer Agents Dirty Hotel Forty Lowest Show Business Divorced Turned Down

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life”

Five Four Dying Car Mines Seven Rings Gas Holiday Tin Caravans

Author:Jenny Downham

Source: Before I Die

“When I was four I believed everything, accepted everything, and was scared of nothing. Now I was eight, and I believed in what I could see and was scared of anything I couldn't. Scared of things in the darkness, of things invisible to see.”

Belief Fear Knowledge Darkness Unknown

Author:Neil Gaiman

Source: The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

“When I was four I didn't know about the world, or I thought it was only stories. Then Ma told me about it for real and I thought I knowed everything. But now I'm in the world all the time, I actually don't know much, I'm always confused.”

Growing Up

Author:Emma Donoghue

Source: Room

“When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.”

Stories Wanted Four Cried Elephants

Author:Thom Yorke

“When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.”

Real Turns Five Four Tvs

Author:Emma Donoghue

Source: Room: Picador Classic

“When I was four or five years old, my mom made me a beautiful white dress with red embroidery on the top for Christmas. I remember her laboring over it because sewing didn’t come naturally to her. I tried it on, and the gathered waistline with the fitted bodice just didn’t please her. It didn’t lie the way it should, so she ripped it out several times.”

Children Memories Miracle Nostalgia Delightful Santa Claus Inner Child Christmas Magic Nativity Seasons Blessings

Author:Larada Horner-Miller

“When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.”

Years I Can Important Stories Mother Father Parent Five Four Imagine Heard Five Years Survivor Holocaust Making Love Five Year Olds

Author:Christian Boltanski

“When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.”

Thinking Kind Action Five Four Car Figures Needed Structure Action Figures

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.”

Thinking Father Five Four Stores Farmers Afternoon Saturday Saturday Afternoon

Author:Dinah Shore

“When I was four years old I watched the movie every day. I was totally obsessed.”

Years Four Obsessed Four Years

Author:Ellen Marlow

“When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.”

Years Wanted Four Minutes My Family Four Years Animator Blown Away Fantasia

Author:David Bolinsky

“When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.”

Years Doe Different Three Four Taught Tests Individuality Libertarian Conformity Four Years Conform Orange Nonconformity Pears Conformity And Individuality

Author:Ani DiFranco

Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses

“When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.”

Thinking Years Running Remember Four Mirrors Fingers Fats Stomach Four Years Looking In The Mirror

Author:Demi Lovato

“When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.”

Years Mother Four Four Years Bronx Tenements

Author:Cy Coleman

“When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.”

Years School Mother Perfect Four Harmony Four Years Composition Music Education

Author:Yoko Ono

“When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.”

Mother Four My Birthday Valet

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.”

Doe Wanted Four Car Wheels Toys Hindsight

Author:Michael Fassbender

“When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.”

Mom My Mom

Author:Eldar Djangirov

“When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.”

“When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.”

Looks Kind Wanted Four Tree Sky Touched Worshippers

Author:Laurie Anderson

“When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.”

Firsts Wanted Girl Opposites Clubs Shirts Hats Pants Going Out T Shirt Fourteen Other Girl Sneakers Polo

Author:Rihanna

“When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.”

Years Age Lasts Science Father Twenties Seven Amazed Seven Years Twenty One Fourteen Unintelligent Astounded

Author:Mark Twain

“When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.”

Way Looks Made Father Comfortable Decided Legs Spread Locals Manhood Fourteen Initiate Orchids

Author:Tennessee Williams

“When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.”

Knows Way Important School Law Desire Impact Burning Law School Burning Desire

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.”

Passion Muse Mute Cupid Elegy

Author:Ovid

“When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.”

Feelings Fighting Fantasy Training Sitting Accepted I Realized Flying Noses Sat Bombs Pilots Airplane Jet Being Accepted

Author:Morgan Freeman

“When I was given the opportunity to write this book, whatever God is up there said, You got your dream. I said, Actually I was hoping for a lighter topic, and God was like, Ha ha! You thought you got to choose.”

Love Hate Relationships Fate Crime Men And Women Parents And Children

Author:Chanel Miller

Source: Know My Name

“When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.”

People Said Happens Jobs Given Teach Chinese

Author:David Gilmour

“When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that.”

People Giving Wells Kind Care Able School Ability Issues Concerned India Response Medical Health Care Indian Capability Lectures Ailments

Author:Amartya Sen

“When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces.”

Seems Turns Force Prayer Concern Blind Items Counting Turn To God Supernatural Forces

Author:Ray Charles

Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'”

Inspirational Bigs Funny Film Boys Fame Degrees Decided Features Graduates Graduation Thesis

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

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