My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
I would go to school, then go for my dance training and be back home only by 9:30 P. M... and that's… — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life. — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet… the effect upon me of my early life… of the ward and city I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods;… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not ... been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of… — David Richo Copy Share Image
If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
My father was very proud of everything I did and he watched my career and my growing fame with great interest, but… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“whose early life had been so embittered by continual proof of neglect and cruelty in human parents toward their children, the love… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and… — Nathan Kress Copy Share Image
My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image