
“I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy— same maturity level.”
The Evolution Tour: Live in Miami
2007, 2008
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
“I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy— same maturity level.”
The Evolution Tour: Live in Miami
2007, 2008
“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.”
Statement to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, referring to his son, Edward, Prince of Wales
Quoted in Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin (1969) ch.34
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
Source: Trout Fishing in America
That's a sign of respect that my father didn't get, that my brother didn't get, that my mother didn't get.
Attributed
“You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,'I am here, I am here, I am here.'"”
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Context: It was Trout’s fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, "What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man’s first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.'"
The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower (pub. Cassell, 1932)
Duke, Winter for Two, p. 212
1990s, The Notebook (1996)
“When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”
as quoted by Horatio B. Williams, Thomas Young, The Man and Physician, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 20, 35-49 (1930).
“Hey oh, here I am… and here we go life's waiting to begin”
da We Don't Need to Whisper)
“Listen, here is the law! I am the law! These boys go to work!”
Speech on city government to the Emory Methodist Episcopal Church in Jersey City (10 November 1937), quoted in New York Times. (11 November 1937), p. 1, responding to the director of the Board of Education's special service bureau, upon being told that the law required two young delinquents to go to school rather than work, as they would have preferred.