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I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.


Bernard M. Baruch

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I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
TRUMAN CAPOTE To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.
BERNARD BARUCH I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it m...
EMILIA FOX Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people. -Bernard M. Baruch.
BERNARD M. BARUCH For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red....
SHERRI SHEPHERD I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell ...
PATRICK CARMAN Sixteen games was too much. The wear and tear over the season, and then the kids need to do schoolwo...
DAROLD IMANAKA July 11. She had always liked those numbers, seven and eleven. In charada, the mystical signi...
ZOé VALDéS I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
ANNE ENRIGHT So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over...
LINCOLN STEFFENS "So you've been over into Russia?" said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, "I have been ...
LINCOLN STEFFENS I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in So...
BETTY HILL I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you ...
J.R. WARD And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER I was eleven years old, and I'd lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.
RAINBOW ROWELL I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I s...
ANTHONY HOPKINS Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star ...
JACK DAVENPORT I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER …because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world...
ALAN BRADLEY Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
EDDIE FLOYD I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
SHELLEY LONG I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a love...
JULIA CHILD I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go ba...
JACOB LATIMORE I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very stric...
TATE DONOVAN I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I was...
CANDIS CAYNE I have buck teeth. I sucked my thumb until I was eleven, and then I went on to suck other things. I'...
ROSANNA ARQUETTE I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
RALPH HALL I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.
KIM ALEXIS In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and...
CHELY WRIGHT I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I...
SAM SMITH Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.
RACHEL CAINE I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even t...
IVAN REITMAN I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is unifor...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN One of my best friends since I was eleven years old is a gay man, and I knew his struggle. It was a ...
TREVANTE RHODES I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped...
LEON DAY I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the ...
GLENDA MILLARD I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.”
RAINBOW ROWELL When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or e...
MARIO J. MOLINA I am alive today because I had advance warning about kidney disease. When I was eleven years old, I ...
DAVID MYERS Those were still the same shots I normally take, but my shot wasn't falling. But in no way was this ...
LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.
MEGAN FOX In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudde...
HARRY HAMLIN It just came on so fast. There was no way to know we were going to be trapped. I spent the first 35 ...
BETTY HAGAN It just came on so fast. There was no way to know we were going to be trapped. I spent the first 35 ...
BETTY HAGAN My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
ADAM GARCIA I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ...
ROBERT ANTHONY When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to ...
SONIA LEVITIN I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10...
TONY BENNETT It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing som...
ERIC BRISTOW I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christ...
ANDY GRIFFITH I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came righ...
GENE HACKMAN I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.
TOBIN BELL I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen ye...
IAN HART One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, wit...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like...
RIHANNA My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven...
CAL RIPKEN, JR. My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon
SYDNEY SMITH I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a...
BOB SEGER I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my...
KATE FORSYTH I'm very, very elated that I came out and skated well. It was lovely, really.
JOHNNY WEIR The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every ra...
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.
ALOK JAGAWAT When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair sli...
DAN AYKROYD The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It st...
LES CLAYPOOL Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipp...
RICHARD MADDEN I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm eve...
FELICE PICANO When 'Sixteen Candles' first came out I was totally offended by the girl in the brace, but I saw the...
KAREN JOHNSON I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made m...
KID ROCK I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I...
HARRY DEAN STANTON I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
STEVE CASE I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON I was born into a family of preachers.
DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television.
DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church.
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BARUCH SPINOZA I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...
BARUCH SPINOZA The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absu...
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, co...
BARUCH SPINOZA I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
BARUCH SPINOZA Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred wh...
BARUCH SPINOZA I advise you to think, ask around and consult other people.
BARUCH MARZEL Sharon stabbed us in the back. We have no time to pray for Sharon or to feel pain for Sharon. We are...
BARUCH MARZEL We aren't praying for this evil person. He went against God. He went against the Bible. He betrayed ...
BARUCH MARZEL Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when...
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA We feel and know that we are eternal
BARUCH SPINOZA Self - complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause
BARUCH SPINOZA God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things
BARUCH SPINOZA