When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Alain
When I was a small boy growing up in Kan…
When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Dwight D Eisenhower
When I was a kid, I said to my father on…
When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’
Quote, saying and phrase by: Jerry Lewis
When I was a child, there were times whe…
When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When I was a child, my mother said to me…
When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope. ‘Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Pablo Picasso
When I was a child people simply looked …
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father …
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Mark Twain
When I was a boy I was told that anybody…
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Clarence Darrow
When I was a boy … we didn’t wake up w…
When I was a boy … we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner
Quote, saying and phrase by: Lyndon B. Johnson
When I want to know what France thinks, …
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Charles De Gaulle