Lauren Bacall Quotes

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.

The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

First love is such a big thing growing up.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

I feel like, when we are young, especially, while we are experiencing so many 'firsts,' when songs move us, we recall exactly where we were when we heard them.

There's no love like the first.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.