Top 1200 Five-Year-Old Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There are only four or five real events that we have that draw that many people into town each year. We should have at least 12; and once we have 12, we can have 24.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

Nothing can prepare an 18-year-old for the fishbowl that is Duke basketball. So that was difficult.

Virtually everyone agrees that the marriage of a 13-year-old child is unconscionable.

Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).

I was very, very young when I first started acting. My first movie role I was in, I was eight years old at the time. My mom got me involved in community theater stuff when I was like five or six years old. How I learned to read was by reading the captions on TV, and I grew up from a really young age watching tons of movies and television.

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

When we come on the radio, people will go, 'That's Old Dominion,' 'cause it's a sound that can only be made by whatever the five of us make together.

Ever since I was five years old, running around the streets of Zona Norte with a football, my mother has been by my side in every situation.

Somebody told me a story where they met a celebrity when they were six years old, and the celebrity was really mean. They still remember that to this day. I never want some 22-year-old in ten years' time to say, 'I met Madelaine Petcsh, and it ruined my idea of celebrities,' so I'm always aware.

I don't want to be a 66-year-old man banging on youth, because that's not my agenda.

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

Everyone in the league has a journey or a legacy, whether you're in the league for five years or you're in the league for one year.

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.

I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our daily lives -- an energy and confidence we call the American spirit. Perhaps because we know we control our own destiny, we believe deep down inside that working together we can make each new year better than the old.

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

It's very good for a 22-year-old player to feature in a Copa America.

I'm very deliberate and I love Excel spreadsheets and I love five-year plans and all that. So it felt really fun to play someone so incredibly different from myself.

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

Sometimes I feel like a 16-year-old who's got a blank check.

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

I would tell my 23-year-old self to be friends with more comics.

I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.

I've won five races as a pro and become European champion in time-trial. I'm growing stronger as a person and as an athlete. I really didn't believe I could do this in my first year as a pro.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide! There are a hundred places where I fear To go,--so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

I was lucky to have been a seven-year-old kid when I saw 'Star Wars.'

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that.

there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.

When I was thirteen years old, and we had just moved to Germany, I definitely felt I was missing out on normal teenage life. I was watching my old school friends from Canada grow up without me while I was in Germany trying to learn the language and trying to pass each year without failing.

It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

This is a devastating problem, is, the longer our children are in school, the worse they do. Year after year after year, our children in America are falling further behind. Our 3- and 4-year-olds enter kindergarten OK, and they fall further and further behind. Each year, children in other countries are learning more than children in this country. And so the gap between American student performance in Singapore and Finland and South Korea and Canada and these other countries, the gap widens year after year after year.

I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!

I was an 8-year-old who loved wrestling and watched it religiously every Saturday at one o'clock.

I can't wait to be an 80-year-old actor. I think I'll be really good at that point!

We need to stop refighting 40-year old battles on women's rights.

At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud."

I was full time on 'Party of Five' for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I was in the writing rotation but didn't have to go in every day or cover the set until midnight.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

The trouble is, the older you get, it's hard to find time to make a film: it's a year to write, a year to get money, a year to make it, a year to edit. It's four years of your life.

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

I traveled when I was super young, so my mindset was never like a typical 8-year-old.

[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what you call - well, it's called complete remission, but I'm cured. I'm fine.

There aren't many shows that encompass roles for a seven-year-old to someone in their 50s.

I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

You can't go on being a 19-year-old rock-and-roller all your life.

I'm just disappointed the folks never took a picture of me when I was five years old jumping off the barn into a haystack with my Superman cape.