Top 1200 Early Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

I worked in Ann Arbor for two years, covering Michigan football and basketball in the early 1990s.

The Russians have been flying long duration crews since the early '70's. And in the early days, they've ended at least two missions early because of conflicts within the crew. So, they learned early on the importance of studying this and making sure you put the right crew together. Since we began our work together on the International Space station with the Russians in the early 2000's, NASA has started to learn the importance of this kind of work. And so, I think it's important work and we are not fully onboard and recognize it as important.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

The question of how to structure our nation's financial system arose in the early years of the republic.

That's been my routine for years and years... Up early before everybody else, before I get connected, before I get bugged, before I have obligations. Get the writing done first, then be the person I want to be in other ways after that.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

In my early years, I would travel 56 km. from home to the training institute and back every single day.

I guess because I was on the 'Early Show' for so many years, any little victory here is something kind of new for me.

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War II, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the fall of the Roman Empire. They even survived the Dark Ages, when almost no one could read and each book had to be copied by hand. They aren't going to be killed off by the Internet.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.

Certainly when I was a kid, in the early '90s, men couldn't show weakness. It was very much a case of suppressing pain and getting on with it. I remember when I was six years old, I was playing football with kids who were three years older when, one day, I fell over and began to cry. And my dad was like, 'Don't ever let someone see you cry.'

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years

A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early years of education.

Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.

I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for years.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Drew Bledsoe is a great talent. He had some fantastic years early in his career.

I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.

My early years as a 'speaker' involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.

Before 'Dilbert,' I tried to become a computer programmer. In the early days of computing, I bought this big, heavy, portable computer for my house. I spent two years nights and weekends trying to write games that I thought I would sell. Turns out I'm not that good a programmer, so that was two years that didn't work out.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

I started my surgery career early, at 11 years old when I was hit by the truck.

I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.

Dad literally carried me around the world with him through the early years of my life.

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

From my early years at Bolton I knew that Chelsea were a great club and the truth is that I was right to come here.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

I received a lot of criticism early in my career, but people didn't realize that I'd only been training for three years when I turned pro.

I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

It's probably also smart to keep some money in cash to invest it. But I would resist at all costs taking a lump-sum distribution because the tendency is to spend out too fast in the early years of your retirement. The advice of professionals is to take out no more than 5% per year and that will give you 20 years of distributions, and at your age, 55, you probably have more than 20 years life expectancy.

My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.

After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.

I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going to be able to join one of the dwindling number of commercial galleries, I started an ARI called the Basement Project which ran for three years. Things came a little at a time and all of a sudden it's 20 years later and I'm still making art, which is really all I ever wanted to do.