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When We Were Young Quotes

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.
- Nicole Krauss

It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.
- Grant Morrison

Just ignore him and he'll go away, my mother used to say to Gillian when we were young and I bugged her. Just ignore him. All he wants is attention. In retrospect there seems to be something almost cruel about thatto simultaneously acknowledge and refuse someone's desire for attentionespecially a child's. All he wants is attention, as if it's bad to want attention, like wanting money or power or fame.
- Peter Cameron

My dear," he sighed when the lights were turned on and they both looked older, "it's been a mistake, our having a family and writing histories and getting middle-aged. We should have been picturesquely shipwrecked together when we were young.
- Willa Cather

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.
- Christo

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
- Rebecca Harding Davis

I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school.
- Kyan Douglas

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.
- Serena Williams

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
- Zac Hanson

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
- Elton John

Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have the time back again which we spent there---days when we were younger and fresher than we are now.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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