Quotes About Memories

I was around a lot of gospel as a kid.

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone.

I think 'Lovin' Feelin' was probably one of the most - probably in '64 and '65, one of the more dramatic love songs for these kids to grab hold of. I mean, they had been listening to, you know, kind of cute songs, and 'Lovin' Feelin' was just a strong, powerful song.

Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.

I was a class clown since second grade.

I went back to school for the end of eighth grade and for all of high school, which was awesome.

I believe it was seventh or eighth grade: I went to a Danny Ford football camp. A buddy of mine was a big Clemson fan, and coach Ford put on a camp, and we did actually enjoy ourselves.

I met Gilda Radner, God bless her, when I was in grade 13, which doesn't exist anymore. The high school I went to went from 9 to 13.

My wife and I started dating in 11th grade.

I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

I saw a lot of movies that I probably shouldn't have seen. I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon' when I was in first grade - that kind of thing.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

My first audition ever was for 'Bye Bye Birdie' in fifth grade.

I've been inside the Anne Frank house. You've only read about Anne Frank in grade school. I've been in it. I've seen the diary. Things that teachers couldn't teach you.

The first album that I bought with my own money was 50 Cent's 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'.' That was, like, the 5th grade, 6th grade.

I graduated from college in 1980.

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.

I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.

I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.