#teen years

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky. ↗

— Ian Hart

#ago #arms #fifteen #gorgeous #got

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#discover #famous #fifteen #give #had

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#associated #been #communities #confess #country

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#bach #began #compose #fifteen #had

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#appeared #cholera #down #end #fearful

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere. ↗

— Robert McCloskey

#could #country #course #doing #ducks

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#because #big #convince #fact #honey

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet. ↗

— Robert Redford

#actor #arrived #art #art student #behaved

Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#ask #cooking #des #fifteen #five

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. ↗

— Alan King

#fifteen #last #live #longer #spend