Younger Days Quotes

• If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.

  Billy Joel

  Past, Way, Causes

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• I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days, I have a kid, I tour a lot, and I'm always short on time.

  Dan Mangan

  Kids, Waiting, Feelings

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Dream, Fall

  Marcel Proust (2016). “Swann's Way”, p.263, Marcel Proust

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• When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

  Patty Duke

  Listening, Rolling, Sitting

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• I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

  Glenn Hughes

  Thinking, Sober, Lyrical

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• In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.

  Jim Goad

  Biceps, Shoulders

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

  Nelson Mandela

  Jail, Arrogance, Enemy

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.

  Petrarch

  Lying, Flames, Desire

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• I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

  Julie Harris

  Hollywood

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• Enjoy that you can see me now. I would love to see the great Michael Jordan and Julius Erving in their younger days, but they're gone. Look at me at 50, I'm going to eat right and live right so I can take less punches and look normal.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Work Out, Looks, Gone

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• In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.

  Kevin Costner

  Girl, Mean, Mind

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• ... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

  Cory Doctorow

  Thinking, Self, Skills

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom”, p.75, Booklassic

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• Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

  Joe Tex

  Florida, Years, Parent

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• Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls.

  Suresh Raina

  Positive, Success, Basketball

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• The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer.

  Simon Hobday

  Golf, Games, Differences

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• I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.

  John Lee Hooker

  Music, Real, Men

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• I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days

  Jamal Lewis

  Teamwork, Team

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• In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"

  Maria Mitchell

  Science, Needs, Half

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