A Quote by Quincy Jones

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

Quincy Jones

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Quincy Jones
American - Musician
Born: March 14, 1933

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One of my earliest memories was President [J.F.] Kennedy's funeral. I actually remember sitting on the floor in the living room looking at our black-and-white television and watching the caisson roll by and hearing the clip-clop of the horses. It's actually one of my earliest memories.

Mike Pence

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

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Aerin Lauder

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Michael Scott

I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

Andreja Pejic

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

Samantha Bond

When I was a toddler, I fell ill with diphtheritic croup and was taken to an isolation unit. One of my earliest memories is of being on my own in a tent surrounded by steaming kettles.

Vera Lynn

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Shari Sebbens

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Shari Sebbens

My earliest memories of defying my parents were through music. I remember rap being banned in my house, and then getting a Cam'ron album.

Kerby Jean-Raymond

One of my earliest memories is seeing a 'Godzilla' movie - not just my earliest movie memory, but any kind of memory.

Travis Beacham

My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it was just full of toys.

Hope Jahren

There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van

Pete Wentz

This is going to sound shocking, but being born with two club feet was quite a good beginning. If you pull through that, you're very unsentimental. My earliest memories are of really agonising pain.