For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up.
Lauren BacallRead
When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Experiences in youth hold a unique significance that can't be replicated in later life.
Lauren Bacall reflects on the unparalleled nature of first experiences, particularly during youth. She suggests that while early events, such as first love or success, are incredibly fortunate and impactful, they also establish a sense of nostalgia, as the depth of those feelings cannot be matched in subsequent occurrences. This highlights the fleeting beauty and uniqueness of life's initial moments.
Themes
YouthFirst ExperiencesNostalgiaEmotionLife EventsLoveSuccess
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of cherishing youth, one could use this quote to illustrate the significance of early experiences.
More from Lauren Bacall
All quotes →I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren BacallRead
I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.
Lauren BacallRead
I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.
Lauren BacallRead
Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.
Lauren BacallRead
I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.
Lauren BacallRead
Similar quotes
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.
Margaret MitchellRead
HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.
Magic JohnsonRead
If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten
Marion WoodmanRead
The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.
Jim RohnRead
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
Madeleine L'EngleRead
Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13
L. Frank BaumRead