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Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.


Edmonia Lewis

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WIL WHEATON I started making puppets and sets when I was 9 years old.
JAMES RACIOPPI Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
MARIO PUZO I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine...
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JACK HENRY ABBOTT My skills are so good, I can win tournaments. I already do. But football is my main focus right now....
BOBBY SIPPIO Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
DON STANFORD Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
DAN STANFORD Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You kn...
ERIC SHANTEAU I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even ...
DANE COOK When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I...
MARY MACLANE My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
'I'll be eleven next year.'
I grin. 'So you're...
TAHEREH MAFI I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind...
MACAULAY CULKIN I didn't discover Terry until I was 10 years old, he was a legend by that time,
SHAWN ASHMORE I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
NADIA COMANECI I was done with everything but the project when I was about 14 years old. I just didn't get around t...
ADAM ARMSTRONG I was a couch potato until my mother talked me into swimming,
CARL MILLER When you're twelve years old and you've just learned to spell 'bestiality',
BILL MAHER Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.
SIOUX INDIAN PRAYER I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it ...
VANESSA PARADIS My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude...
RICK RIORDAN Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting...
ANNE SEXTON I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies...
CHE GUEVARA I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years...
ROGER NASH BALDWIN I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was p...
ZOLA JESUS I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years o...
STANLEY KUBRICK When I was 4 years old, I got to see that tower being put up, and it's been my life. This was a big ...
CHRIS HARDMAN I led off our 200-free relay last year and I had a great time [swimming the 50-yard distance]. I dec...
COLIN MURTAGH Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today bec...
PETER JACKSON As soon as I was old enough to understand what it was, I liked fishing. I started tournament bass fi...
ANTHONY GAGLIARDI This is something I've always wanted. I grew up fishing and watching fishing shows on TV when I was ...
JACK ADAMS However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
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PAUL PRUDHOMME My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.
DACRE MONTGOMERY I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week traini...
BRUCE JENNER I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week traini...
CAITLYN JENNER Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
ZAINAB SALBI America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I ...
AHMET ERTEGUN I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 yea...
STANLEY KUBRICK Writers need their wandering just as fish need their swimming and birds need their flying!
AVIJEET DAS I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing t...
MICHAEL CAINE Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins
INDIAN PROVERB The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, ...
BARBRA STREISAND I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, ...
CHUCK KLEIN I love a live church. Sixty-two years old -- this gives me life.
ARTHUR YOUNG We have an 8-year-old doing gymnastics, and we have a gentleman competing in swimming who is 90 year...
JEFF COLLINS Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
ROBERT BYRNE My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writi...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary chang...
LYNN MARGULIS It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was...
LIBBY TRICKETT I thought high school was the best four years of my life, until I came to BC.
SARAH WILLIAMS I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I...
WILMA RUDOLPH This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I did...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG I can't believe it, I have dreamed of this since I was eight years old.
HAMISH CARTER I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
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BERNIE TAUPIN I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books...
PATRICIA POLACCO It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I...
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PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of '...
PAUL REUBENS I am eighty-three years old, but I only remember the last seventy-one years. You see, when I was twe...
T.J. KLUNE We used some old (fishing) waders, overalls, boots, stuffed him and gave him a fishing pole. It was ...
GLENN ASHBY With social media now, everybody's faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myse...
SETH ROLLINS If I’d said that to my sensible, smutty, twelve-year-old self, he would have laughed until he hemo...
GREG EGAN When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body...
MAYA ANGELOU I like the competition against some of the best. Dara has been match fishing for 25 years. I've been...
PAUL WELLS And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter ha...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I had sat around campfires all my life, since I was 10 years old. I wanted the sound of water.
ED WARNER I am really excited about this opportunity I have been given. I played behind Jamal Lewis for four y...
CHESTER TAYLOR I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized...
WILLIE AAMES I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure tha...
LARRY DAVID I consider this a celebration. He led a great life.
JOEY MEYER But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the...
COREY HAIM I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different...
DON CHEADLE The best word to describe her was gracious. She was a wonderful lady and will be very sadly missed. ...
JAMES CALLAGHAN My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy...
WENDY FROUD So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a hug...
DUNCAN SHEIK I wish I was 100 years old.
LAN CHUNG I wanted a shot at the big league level, and I wasn't getting it. Twelve years was enough. We were r...
JEROMY PALKI This region twelve years ago was a ghost town, ... The casinos and hotels have revitalized the area ...
LARRY GREGORY Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
ROBERT BYRNE I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to...
BOO WEEKLEY I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.
MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
MARIELLA FROSTRUP To those of you who are sticklers for safety and approach life with all the caution of amateur beeke...
KIRSTEN MILLER I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercial...
YUNA I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.
DEMI LOVATO I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a gre...
RALPH MACCHIO He said that he lived in the Antelope Valley until he was 22 years old, and graduated from Palmdale ...
KENDRA RICHMOND My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother de...
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ALEX LEWIS We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've...
ALEX LEWIS They have to keep working and we have to take their lunches over to the pits.
ALEX LEWIS Their food has to be nutritious, high in protect and high in volume. It has to include a choice of f...
ALEX LEWIS What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C.S. LEWIS The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to...
C.S. LEWIS You can make anything by writing.
C.S. LEWIS I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...
C.S. LEWIS It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have re...
C.S. LEWIS Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found...
C.S. LEWIS God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S. LEWIS Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you st...
C.S. LEWIS Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as i...
C.S. LEWIS There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. LEWIS No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo...
C.S. LEWIS Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can u...
C.S. LEWIS I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. LEWIS Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C.S. LEWIS A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slight...
C.S. LEWIS Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. LEWIS Nos acercaremos a Dios no con el intento de evitar los sufrimientos inherentes a todos los amores, s...
C.S. LEWIS Hence as the poet says: People in love cannot be moved by kindness, And opposition makes them feel l...
C.S. LEWIS Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It i...
C.S. LEWIS The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the s...
C.S. LEWIS Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "...
C.S. LEWIS For most of us the true rivalry lies between the self and the human Other, not yet between the human...
C.S. LEWIS But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has bee...
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