The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

— Jean Kerr

Courageous Five Year Olds quotations

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.

Five year olds quote Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the old
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old.

I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

Five year olds quote Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived alone by selling gum on the streets. For ten years, I lived like a fly. I was eventually able to graduate elementary and middle school through qualification examinations and the first thing that I ever liked was music.

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself.

They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

Five year olds quote Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.
Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old.

When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

Five year olds quote In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your ye
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

Five year olds quote If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

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.

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

Five year olds quote Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.

Five year olds quote When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to l
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life.

I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.

Five year olds quote Fight me if you wish, but remember I am old for a reason.
Fight me if you wish, but remember I am old for a reason.
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I've been on stage since I was five years old and I feel really at home there.

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

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

Five year olds quote Old days won't open new doors.
Old days won't open new doors.
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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.

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old.

I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

Five year olds quote One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beauti
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind.

I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

I started playing chess when I was five years old.

I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old.

Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

Five year olds quote Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it;

nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

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