The quote "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted 14 years ago…" is famous quote by Ken Livingstone (1945), Mayor of London between 2000 and 2008.
Victory speech on being elected first Mayor of London, 14 years after the abolition of the Greater London Council, of which he was leader. Friday 5 May 2000
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ken-reclaims-the-capital-279169.html
Variant translation: I freely admit: it was David Hume's remark that first, many years ago, interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my enquiries in the field of speculative philosophy.
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783)
1860s, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (1860)
Context: The American people in the Northern States have helped to enslave the black people. Their duty will not have been done till they give them back their plundered rights. Reference was made at the City Hall to my having once held other opinions, and very different opinions to those I have now expressed. An old speech of mine delivered fourteen years ago was read to show — I know not what. Perhaps it was to show that I am not infallible. If so, I have to say in defense, that I never pretended to be.
“I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.”
I was 14, for God's sake!
Discussing her scene in My Father The Hero in an interview with FHM (October 2000)
“I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.”
Popcorn in Paradise (1980)
On Sports Media: 'Big Brother' watches, listens, Barry Jackson, 2008-02-22, 2008-03-27, MiamiHerald.com, http://web.archive.org/web/20070811065546/http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/story/428521.html, 2007-08-11 http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/story/428521.html,
"On Reading New Books" (1825)
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
Not found in Twain's works, this was attributed to him in Reader's Digest (September 1939): no prior attribution known. Mark Twain’s father died when Twain was eleven years old.
Disputed
Variant: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
“I was honored five years ago, ‘man of the year’ in Michigan.”
2020-05-22
Trump’s Dubious Michigan ‘Man of the Year’ Boast
Robert Farley
FactCheck.org
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/08/trumps-dubious-michigan-man-of-the-year-boast/
2020, May 2020
