Five Year Olds Quotes - Page 2

• It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

  Dylan McDermott

  Father, Years, Car

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• 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.

  Lance Burton

  Years, Volunteer, Magic

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• It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

  Chris Colfer

  Kids, Years, Add

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2010

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• Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

  Sharon Creech

  Children, Real, Philosophical

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• I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Song, Father, Years

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• Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.

  Todd McFarlane

  Children, Years, Three

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• One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

  Chance the Rapper

  Song, Years, People

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• I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

  Karrine Steffans

  Book, Writing, School

  "Former 'Video Vixen' Talks Sexuality and Power". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 9, 2007.

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• When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Writing, Years, Parent

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• I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

  Eda LeShan

  Horse, Husband, Central Park

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• I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

  Iris Apfel

  Art, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Dad, Home, Years

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• Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.

  Phillip Adams

  Good Friend, Naughty, Thinking

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• I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

  Jack London

  Years, Drunk, Firsts

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Running, Horse

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• It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was taking piano lessons with a local teacher. I began to study composition at the Yamaha school. And I continued to study there until the age of 15.

  Hiromi

  Teacher, Home, School

  "The Energy Is One: An Interview With Hiromi Uehara". Interview with Wayne Zade, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 20, 2003.

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• Playing frisbee with a five year old is amazingly similar to chasing after a frisbee.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Years, Chasing, Frisbee

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• I live on the water and I have jet skis. Skiing is my biggest thing, I've been skiing since I was five-years-old.

  Cedric Gervais

  Years, Water, Skiing

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• When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

  Boots Riley

  Song, Cousin, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.

  Carl Gardner

  Mom, Dad, Years

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• It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Years, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

  Rokia Traore

  Father, Years, Skills

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I was probably five years old or four years and I would listen to "White Christmas," and I just thought it was the most beautiful thing ever. The musicianship and his voice and the melody of that song; it's almost like I wish it wasn't a Christmas song because I wish that you were allowed to listen to it all year.

  Michael Buble

  Beautiful, Song, Years

  "Michael Buble On Fishing, Sinatra And Auto-Tune". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 28, 2013.

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• I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.

  David Toop

  Daughter, Children, Grieving

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I've been on stage since I was five years old and I feel really at home there.

  Martina McBride

  Home, Years, Stage

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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