What's something you memorized as a kid that you still know by heart?
I learned Poem Robert frost Two roads diverged and still know it by heart.
"Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492"
1/2 of eight is much more than 4...
The first President after the American Revolution was not George Washington. Under the Articles of Confederation it was the appointed John Hanson...
Countless song lyrics, quotes from films, wholesale dialogue from old comic books and MAD magazines.... tons of useless (but fun) stuff.
I know the first 30-40 digits of pi. You know, the 3.14 kind of pi. I was a quirky and very nerdy kid.
There are lots of songs and rhymes as well as my first home phone number and the address where we lived during my elementary school years in the 1960s.
The entire Psalms 23. It was the first scripture that I had ever learned. I was about 11 years old.
The Gettysburg Address and Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride." I actually learned the latter because of my sister's attempts to memorize it for a talent show. I spent so much time behind her acting it out to try to distract her and/or get Mom to laugh in the middle of it that I remember it even better. If we count teen years, the FFA creed is also still burned in my brain.
While in Kindergarden (I call it Basic School) I learned this Poem:
"Labour for learning before you grow old,
For learning is better than silver and gold.
Silver and gold will vanish away,
But a good education will never decay."
I was about 3 or 4 years old at the time. I never forgot it.
I learnt another poem "The Heights By Great Men" when I was in Primary School. It goes:
"The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight.
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling onward through the night."
by Beth37 10 years ago
I can find Waldo within seconds. Don't be jealous! Some ppl are just special.Now, what's your amazing talent?
by Billie Kelpin 11 years ago
What lines of poetry, speeches, etc. are you proud of knowing by heart?My mother was a bit eccentric. She would lie with me on the Murphy bed in the living room of our apt.with a bottle of Schlitz beer,saltine crackers, and Thuringer salami. After the "Honeymooners" left the...
by threekeys 7 years ago
What were you really into when you were a kid?I loved r n b and still do! As young as 4 years of age, I dreamt of being an African American singer in a back up band. Still till this day I don't know why. My voice is for the shower only! But I wanted to sing and dance.We didn't know any...
by Leta S 9 years ago
Mine would have to be when my sister (the wild child) stole a bunch of other girls' purses out of their lockers when she was still in high school and stashed them in my dorm room when I was a freshman in college. (Who the heck knows why she did that?)I didn't know what to do. I wasn't exactly...
by faqundo 13 years ago
�what's that movie about a kid that is forced by other kid to wear a dress in a party?then the first kid runs and is followed by his mother to a billboard, and then the kid gets inside the billboard through a door and meet with a lady with a pink dress and the mother looks at the scene from...
by Karli Christine Duran 14 years ago
Name one thing you learned from dating your last partner.For example I started dating a good friend, started doing drugs together, and now we are no longer together after a rocky year long relationship. I don't regret becoming lovers, but lesson learned: Don't do drugs with good friend...
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