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When I turned 15, my father let me drive our old ’66 Chevy Impala and I was finally able to get a “real” job – at a fast-food restaurant. Where else at that age? I never stopped working. For most of my life, I worked a good 15-20 hours a day, for years, and I made the mistake of thinking I was damn near invincible, only to eventually find out I wasn’t.

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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

– William Makepeace ThackerayRate it:

When I want to be beloved, I love someone.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.Rate it:

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

– Dejan StojanovicRate it:

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

– Charles De GaulleRate it:

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

– Paul SimonRate it:

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

– Mickey RooneyRate it:

When I was a boy ... we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner

– Lyndon B. JohnsonRate it:

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

– Clarence DarrowRate it:

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

– Mark TwainRate it:

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

– John PrineRate it:

When I was a child I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family.

– Romola GaraiRate it:

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy. Today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

– Mark TwainRate it:

When I was a child there was a TVprogram and a series of booksabout a really naughty girl calledMarmalade Atkins. I always likedthat name, it seems sweet butmischievous and a bit spiky.

– Helen BaxendaleRate it:

When I was a child, I didn’t have any watch but all my friends had, but now today I have a watch but don’t have time.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

– Pablo PicassoRate it:

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

– Rodney DangerfieldRate it:

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'

– Jerry LewisRate it:

When I was a Kid, I used to think Adults were unfair too. Yet here I am, just another lying grown-up.

– Kiryu KazumaRate it:

When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

– Dwight D EisenhowerRate it:

When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.

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When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. And now, the twilight of my life, this understanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty, and time: once so disposable, are the fuels that drive me forward. And love, most especially, mio caro. For you, our children, our brothers and sisters. And for the vast and wonderful world that gave us life, and keeps us guessing. Endless affection, mia Sofia. Forever yours, Ezio Auditore.

– Ezio Auditore da FirenzeRate it:

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

– Samuel JohnsonRate it:

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

– Gracie AllenRate it:

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