“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.” TryingYearsAmericaParentHalfStudyGroupsSixExcellentPermissionBostonScholarshipYaleConsultingHalf A Year Author:Indra Nooyi
“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.” YearsFirstsThreeParentFourFitSixInstrumentsSevenGuitarEightFour YearsPlaying Guitar Author:Chord Overstreet
“I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a café.” I CanHomeRememberMovingNightLostParentSixFloodLooking BackDay And NightCafesAdelaide Author:Samantha Stosur
“I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.” ShowsLeftParentNumbersComedyFourNew YorkSixDancingPianoPerformersBalletPuerto RicoRicoComedy ShowsPlaying PianoBallet Dancing Author:Roselyn Sanchez
“My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.” WorldFeelsYearsDifferentAgeParentBoysTaxesSixAdultsMatureEarningPupilsEarning Money Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.” IdeasHelpingWantedValuesParentClassFiguresCollegeMonthsSixSavingNo IdeaExpensiveHelp MeWorking ClassSix MonthsSavingsTuitionStanfordGoing To CollegeCollege Tuition Author:Steve Jobs
“When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.” NeedsWarKidsFilmGuyFeltStuffBitsParentProtectSixNewsClockVietnamVietnam War Author:Johnny Depp
“On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'” SaidTwoHomeFoundParentSixThirdsCaughtRanRepeatsLakesOwnersPullingYankeesAthleticsNew York YankeesAway From HomeFound YouCatfish Author:Catfish Hunter
“Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26.” PeopleAbleYoungParentMillionsPlansProudSixHealthcare Author:Barack Obama
“Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.” BitsParentFoolOne DaySixConstantRoundsCompanionRoofHometownDays OffBrotherlyAmerican WriterDavid Thoreau Author:Edward Hoagland
“When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.” YearsKindReasonRunningParentSixFarmersZoosPoniesSix Year OldsFarmers Markets Author:David Schwimmer
“In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.” FeltParentBrotherMonthsSixComplainingReceivingComplaintsSix MonthsFebruaryEbay Author:Pierre Omidyar
“I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.” MenWayBookShowsParentPoorMagicSixSevenTricksShow BusinessPoor ManMagic Tricks Author:Steve Martin
“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.” StuffParentHoursWatchesFiveGrewDadSixGrew UpNewsMy DadFoxesRight WingOhioFox NewsCincinnati Ohio Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt
“The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes seriousand studious at six all seem to surprise their parents. It is difficult to let go of one's image of a child, say goodbye to the child a parent knows, and get accustomed to this slightly new child inhabiting the known child's body.” KnowsChildrenTwoBodySeemsParentDifficultKnownFourBabyQuietLetting GoSixSurpriseCalmGoodbyeTemperAccustomedInfantSaying GoodbyeTantrumsStudiousTemper TantrumsWild Child Author:Ellen Galinsky
“Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.” WorldYearsLongHardCareParentHoursSixSevenWitnessExcitementSeven YearsNew DayHard LifeLong Hours Author:Vernon L. Smith
“I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.” YearsKindSaidWantedBeautifulFilmGirlThreeFeltParentInterestingSupportPathFourMissingMonthsProudOne DaySixExcitingAll KindsSix MonthsInteresting ThingsBridesTreadmillsKind Of Girl Author:Sandra Bullock
“Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.” WayNeedsFeelsKidsParentSixCompareTwins Author:Ashley Olsen
“You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.” IfsThinkingWritingChildrenBookParentFiveMinutesStupidSixChildren's BooksCompact Author:Michael Ian Black
“Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.” WellsEndsCountryHardHomeDreamWantedSpeakParentPoorMillionsBrotherHard WorkSixMy FamilyStoresMy BrotherImmigrantsShoppingAmerican DreamMallsFleasSpeak EnglishFlea Markets Author:Ted Lieu
“I have six kids - four girls and two boys. I'm amazed that growing up in the same house, same parents with the same exposure to the same things that all my six kids can be so different. I see that as their (being) designed by God.” TwoDifferentKidsGirlHouseParentBoysGrowing UpFourGrowingSixAmazedExposure Author:Alex Kendrick
“Both of my parents were raised in Christian homes, which was great. They instilled in us that God came first and they showed us what it was like to have a relationship with Christ. I accepted Christ at a young age, at the age of six years old, and just tried to play hockey and balance that.” YearsFirstsPlayHomeAgeChristianYoungParentChristBalanceSixRaisedAcceptedHockeyYoung AgeSix Year OldsChristian Home Author:Mike Fisher
“I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.” YearsI CanRememberParentHeroSixInstanceHandfulSix Year Olds Author:John Kiriakou
“And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.” ThinkingHeartKidsLastsFatherParentFourWifeGroupsMomHusbandSixShotsMy FamilyIllMy MomAlcoholExesFamily HistoryHeart AttackMentally IllHaving KidsEx Wife Author:Christopher Titus
“I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on.” PeopleKnowsAbleUsedGamesParentSleepFiveDyingFootballBedTenSixArguingUsed To BeStayingNoonFathomFootball Game Author:George Clooney
“Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. My parents divorce at six, when I was six, really affected me. We moved around and I was with my mom and my sister. I have learned, by the way, there were amazing gifts that came out of that. For one, I'm living my childhood dream. I feel very fortunate.” WayFeelsFeelingsDreamParentChildhoodEmotionalMomSixMovedMy MomDivorceInvisibleFortunateAffectedMy SisterI Have LearnedUnheardChildhood DreamsParents Divorce Author:Daphne Zuniga
“For whatever reason I just remembered being six years old and my parents leaving the house and trusting me to be alone. I had an older sister, I think she was supposed to babysit me but she immediately ran across the street to her friend's house.” ThinkingYearsReasonHouseParentStreetsSixLeavingRememberedRanSix Year OldsOlder Sister Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the Geographic I was a teacher. Plus my parents were teachers and my brother and my grandparents. So it was the culture of our family to think about teaching, to talk about teaching, to talk about teachers.” ThinkingYearsCultureParentTeacherTeachingBrotherSixPhotographerOur FamilyMy BrotherPlusGrandparent Author:Sam Abell
“People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.” PeopleKnowsRealProblemBeautifulMotherFoundHouseParentSinSixClothesGrandmotherPrincessBoresMy GrandmotherReal ProblemsAttics Author:Quentin Crisp
“Growing up I had amazing parents who really let me be creative and free. I was the youngest of three by six years, the child who was the outsider and observer. When I went off to Boston to act, I was very young - 10. And my parents didn't fear that. They had the respect to let me make my choices.” YearsChildrenYoungChoicesThreeParentCreativeGrowing UpGrowingSixLet MeOutsidersBe CreativeObserversBostonAmazing Parents Author:Julie Taymor
“I learned about sex pretty early when I was, I remember, my friend Amanda DeLauro explained it to me when I was six and then I went home and I told my parents, "Oh my God, Amanda said this ridiculous thing, can you believe how stupid this is? She's insane.” BelieveSaidHomeRememberSexParentStupidSixMy FriendsRidiculousInsaneAmandaRidiculous Things Author:Lena Dunham
“My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.” ChildrenDifferentMotherParentEnjoyStudyBrotherTypeLessonsSixMy BrotherConcertsDifferent Types Of MusicMusic Lessons Author:Wynton Marsalis
“I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.” KindChildrenHas BeensTwoParentStrangeSixAddressesBackwardsInauguralInaugural Address Author:Michael Moore
“Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.” KnowsChildrenPersonsSaidCareMotherThreeParentMistakeSawsWorstSixRaisesConclusionAdulthoodBarbariansAndrewBest PersonBad ParentOldest Child Book:Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet Source: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet
“After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.” TwoBigsAsksParentMomDadBattleSixEnglandDiedCourtLawyerGrandparentSadieMom DiedSpatulas Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.” ChildrenSchoolLawStrongParentWaterSpaceFiveMissingCivilizationSixStonesRoundsDareProtectionInvisibleRuinsYardsHandfulTabooPolicemenRogerTokensOld Life Author:William Golding