Five Year Olds Quotes

• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

  Eve Ensler

  Girl, Years, United States

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• I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

  Philip Rivers

  Nfl, Years, Backyards

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• The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.

  Jennifer James

  Children, Memories, Fall

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day.
  You looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers.
  Twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning,
  you take a look at the flowers - they are wilted.
  The day isn't a happy day.
  Well, what's changed?
  You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world.
  Something must have changed.
  Well, probably it was you.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Beautiful, Morning, Flower

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.8, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it's been a special relationship. To me it's not a religion; it's just talking to God, reading his word, and doing my best to honor him in everything I do.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Jesus, Reading, Heart

  "Annasophia Robb And Bethany Hamilton Talk Soul Surfer: Interview With Shark Victim Surfer And The Actress Who Played Her". Santa Monica Mirror Interview, smmirror.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I've been working since I was five years old, and everyone in my life, outside of my family, would look at us and go, "You're crazy! Take your kid out of the business and put them in school because you're never gonna succeed."

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Crazy, Kids, School

  "Chloë Grace Moretz Talks IF I STAY, Portraying Dark Characters, Playing the Cello, and Making Relationships Work". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2014.

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• I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally started memorizing them for no reason, and started repeating them to anyone who would listen to me. And then, I begged my mom to let me do whatever that meant because I couldn't put into words exactly what that meant. It just meant me happy. And then, when I was 11 years old, I realized what I was doing and I looked to my mom and said, "Can I make this something I can do for the rest of my life?" She was like, "Yeah, sure, if you want to." And I was like, "Okay, great! I think I might want to do this forever."

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Brother, Thinking

  "Chloë Grace Moretz Talks IF I STAY, Portraying Dark Characters, Playing the Cello, and Making Relationships Work". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2014.

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• When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!

  Ed Engle

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.34, Stackpole Books

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• History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

  Thorsten Heins

  Iphone, Years, Innovation

  "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

  Steve Valentine

  Years, Feelings, Magic

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• When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for... getting attention is not a bad thing. And letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary what the facts are is not a bad thing.

  Brit Hume

  Running, Thinking, Years

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

  Wesley Clark

  Smart, Self Esteem, Years

  "Wesley Clark: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show." You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool."

  David McCallum

  Son, Yelling, Years

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Years, Careers, Dancing

  "Jennifer Lopez talks Shall We Dance?". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. October 13, 2004.

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• Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.

  Dennis Miller

  Teacher, Years, Trying

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.14, Main Street Books

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• As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you came to the country?" I was surprised at myself that I asked this question. It means that it was always in the air. Then years later I understood it was because of the Holocaust, because they were refugees. They did not come as immigrants and, because of the illusions of the '50s and the late '40s, my mother said, "The world must be better." She could not imagine that it wouldn't be different.

  Amira Hass

  Country, Mother, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Years, Giving

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.

  Axel Alonso

  Girl, Book, Hero

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• Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

  Bernie Mac

  Passion, Years, Laughing

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.

  James Nares

  Daughter, Running, Hurt

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• The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.

  Thorsten Heins

  Years, Iphone, Invention

  "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Believe, Son

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• As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

  Jenny Eclair

  Years, Berlin, England

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• A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Beauty, Beautiful, Years

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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