
From his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959)
Variant: Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
From his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959)
Variant: Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
“What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life.”
O Magazine (January 2007), pages 160 & 217
Context: What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your circumstances, because you are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
“I started playing judo and kung fu at an early age.”
Source: I started playing judo and kung fu at an early age and eventually got into karate as a professional. https://www.mizan.news/003Ay1 Mizan News, (September 12, 2021)
“Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.”
On his 90th birthday to a journalist (8 March 1931), as quoted in Information 2000: Library and Information Services for the 21st Century, Vol. 1991, Part 2 (1992) by the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, p. 272.
1930s
[John Sears, RTNDA Communicator, RTNDA; The Association; Radio Television Digital News Association; Volume 54, August 2000, Interview with Ed Bradley]
“I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.”
As quoted in The Observer (18 February 1951)
“I might have been homosexual if I was born in a different age but as it was I remained asexual.”
Stewart, Rory (2007). Arabian Sands (Introduction). London: Penguin Classics. p. xii. ISBN 9780141442075
“If I can rejoice for a moment,
Death at an early age would still be a long life.”
"Miscellaneous Poems" III, quoted in Albert Davis (ed.), The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse (1962), p. 67