W Quotes
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“When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death.”
Source: Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.”
“When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.”
“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.”
Source: Women
“When I was young I was on punishment a lot and I used to watch a lot of TV, and I asked myself a question: 'How come people like Mike? How come they like Magic? How come they like Bird? How come they don't like the big guys?' So I just throw a little bit of what they were doing. You smile, you act crazy and silly. And I think people like me because I'm different. I've always been a class clown type of guy. It comes natural.”
“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.”
“When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.”
“When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.”
“When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.”
“When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.
“When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.”
“When I was young I was very close to my parents. I never liked staying at my mates' houses, I always wanted to be with my parents and then suddenly at 17 I was like, "Oh well, maybe I should just move half way around the world."”
“When I was young I was very interested in science and technology, and my dad brought home the first computer. I played pac man and I was hooked! By learning to create technology, girls learn to speak up.”
“When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.”
“When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.”
“When I was young, I would avoid people with sniffles so I wouldn’t catch their colds. Now that I’m older, I've raised my standards.”
“When I was young, I would avoid people with sniffles so I wouldn’t catch their colds. Now that I’m older, it's the least of my reasons for avoiding them.”
“When I was young I would throw a rock into the water to see what kind of splash I could make. Now I am content to admire the placidity of the surface that mirrors back to us all that is.”
“When I was young, literature was not about the things it is about for me now. Literature was about the chance to peek into other people to see if I was like them.”
Source: Avidly Reads Poetry
“When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“When I was young, my father taught me a slave had only one duty: TO BURN DOWN THE PLANTATION.”
“When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.”
“When I was young, my friends and I always tested the PIs level of patience. For example, when synthesizing the specialties of old-days, the one-time risk of eating those dishes was calculated for minutes. Of course, in the end, we always wolfed down the unique meals they declared inedible. For example, the so-called hamburger we wanted to eat forced the PIs to assess the scale of risks while we were slurping up a half a deciliter of synthesized fat.”
Source: Conjunction
“When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.”
“When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.”
Source: The Notebooks of Robert Frost
“When I was young,’ said Sybil, ‘women didn’t go to funerals, for some reason or other it wasn’t customary. Perhaps one can see why. Women nearly always outlive men, and I suppose it may have been a kind of subconscious jealousy — the men wouldn’t want to have the women standing there in the cemetery, triumphant at having outlived them.”
Source: A Glass of Blessings
“When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old”
“When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of heterosexuality ". And then, they ended up in very complex relationships that were maybe full of heterosexual power dynamics or full of lesbian forms of masculinity and they became very confused.”
“When I was young there were some things I didn’t understand.
I never understood how Superman could love Lois Lane…”
“When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.”
“When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.”
Source: ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO
“When I was young, we were made to pledge allegiance, an oath that ended with the phrase, ‘with liberty and justice for all.’ Well, Jay Felson was denied liberty…let us make sure he is NOT DENIED JUSTICE!”
Tessa Thorpe, veterans counselor”
Source: Justice Gone
“When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.”
“When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.”
Source: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
“When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.”
“When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.”
“When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.”
“When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.”
“When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.”
“When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.”
“When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.”
“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.”
“When I was young, boys didn't type.”
“When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.”
“When I was young, especially when I was at school, I thought couture was about big gowns, big hats (that is couture as well, of course) - but my couture is about going near the clothes and having a look at the details. I like people to have a shock in a chic way.”
“When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.”
“When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.”
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”