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Early Life Quotes

Looking back at the years that shaped everything.

Early life often decides more than we realize at the time, and these quotes look back on childhood ease, hardship, and the moments people are able to recall decades later.

I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obsessed about music, somehow feeling how 'big' it is and is what it can give us. For me, this was...

Quotes by Ruth Reinhardt

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

Quotes by Roger Daltrey

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

Quotes by Mildred Dresselhaus

Able Quotes

If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.

Quotes by Kevin Macdonald

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

Quotes by Eric Kandel

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

Quotes by Douglass North

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

Quotes by David Warner

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

Quotes by Chris Crutcher

About Quotes

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

Quotes by Bruce Robinson

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

Quotes by Barton Gellman

'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.

Quotes by Arunachalam Muruganantham

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these early life quotes generally reflect on?
They look back at childhood ease or hardship, formative musical obsessions, and memory itself, often connecting early experience to who someone became later.
Why might an easy early life be seen as a disadvantage?
One quote argues that people who have it too easy early on struggle later, since they mistakenly expect everything in life to stay just as easy.
Do the quotes discuss struggles from an early life of being silenced?
Yes, one describes growing up silenced, sometimes violently, and later finding a voice tied permanently to advocating for others who remain voiceless.
Is memory a recurring theme in these quotes?
It is, including a quote wondering whether someone could even recall most of their early life if asked about it today.
What should I browse next?
Try about quotes for general reflection, or battle quotes for more on early struggles.

Continue the theme with quotes about memory and reflection, or lines describing an early battle that shaped someone's later resolve.