Fourteen Quotes

• I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

  Charles Kingsley

  Grief, First Love, Men

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• May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

  Edward Abbey

  Dog, Rain, Eye

  "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.

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• The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this with reverence, the fourteen incidents of the Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the Psychology of Christ. Above all, they show, in detail, his way of transforming suffering by love. He shows us, step by step, how that plan of love can be carried out by men, women, and children today, both alone in the loneliness of their individual lives and together in communion with one another.

  Caryll Houselander

  Friday, Children, Loneliness

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• I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

  Uma Thurman

  Inspirational, Pain, Teenager

  "Interview with Laura Yorke". "Reader's Digest" Magazine, July 2006.

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• When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

  Armand Hammer

  Motivational, Positive Thinking, Lucky Day

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• Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

  Brian Clough

  Holiday, Shoes, Boots

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

  George William Curtis

  Teenage, Mistake, Believe

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• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Thinking, Drug

  Interview with Ted Demme and Ingrid Sischy, "Ingenue", March 1996.

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• She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange exotic breed. Not that she did not have enough animals. She had collected several wild and broken animals that, in a way, had become exotic by their breaking. Their roof would have collapsed from the number of birds who might have lived there if the desert hadn't killed three- quarters of those that tried to cross it. Still every animal that came within a certain radius of that house was given a welcome-the tame, the half born, the wild, the wounded.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Animal, Years, Numbers

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Collected Works of Billy the Kid”, p.35, Vintage

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• For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

  Thomas Tusser

  Years, Shining, Age

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• I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

  Joanna Newsom

  Years, Years Ago, Harps

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

  LL Cool J

  Tape, Demos

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• Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

  Jerry Hall

  Texas, Twenties, Wells

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• Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Age, Nine, Limits

  Lolita pt. 1, ch. 5 (1955)

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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  Sam Houston

  Father, School, Eight

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  When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

  Rihanna

  Girl, Opposites, Sneakers

  "Rihanna Talks Curves in Vogue" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 16, 2011.

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• What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Take Me, Sucker

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• Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.

  Angus Young

  People, Sound, Albums

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• I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Years, People

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
  Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
  I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,
  I giggle and dote in season.

  Stevie Smith

  Years, Goats, Reason

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• For the past fourteen years, it's been my job to push past my boundaries and do things I never thought I could do, which is why it's been such a fulfilling career.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, House, Boards

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• In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

  Mark Twain

  Europe And America, Discovery, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.6, 谷月社

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