A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade I'm like 'Hey something's wrong here.'
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did which was work in an office.
I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
By the age of 9 or 10 I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down wrote this song and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going that is where you were going to be.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down wrote this song and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said well Maureen I'm on borrowed time.
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven when I opened my mouth and said 'Oh God what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did which was work in an office.
I was born in ancient times at the end of the world in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
I always knew that food and wine were vital with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself and I had to make good.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
I met Woz when I was 13 at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was like the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
Even from a very early age I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age so I was the last one picked so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court so that was pretty much my job.
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down wrote this song and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
My family knew but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said well Maureen I'm on borrowed time.