Thirteen Quotes

• Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

  Erma Bombeck

  Summer, Mother, Hurt

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• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, April, Cold

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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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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• I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.

  Jay Asher

  Giving Up, Listening, Too Late

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.146, Penguin

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• I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

  Jay Asher

  Listening, Tape, Stories

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.17, Penguin

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• No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

  Jay Asher

  Life, Impact, People

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, Penguin

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• And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

  Sojourner Truth

  Mother, Strong Women, Jesus

  Sojourner Truth, “Ain't I A Woman?”

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• Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

  Anthony Quinn

  Children, Dad, Father

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• In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Running, Sweet, Years

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• Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, People, Boards

  "A Woman’s Place" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. July 11 & 18, 2011.

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• My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

  Mike Shinoda

  Christmas, Years, Parent

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• I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Movie, Ocean, Scripts

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• Thirteen years I took on this last book.

  Gay Talese

  Book, Years, Lasts

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

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• I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Country, Home

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• I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Inspiration, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

  Ruben Blades

  Neighborhood

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• Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

  Thomas Carper

  Years, Sea, Dollars

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• I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

  Ryan White

  Years, Faces, Face To Face

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• When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

  Kevin Costner

  World, Trouble, Term

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• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  Umberto Eco

  Player, Men, Skills

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• I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

  Robert Goulet

  Years, Massachusetts, Born

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• I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

  Rube Goldberg

  Friday, Art, Real

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• A lot of people have said that I'm trying to be like Justin Bieber by wearing a hat all the time. But the truth is, I don't like the way my hair looks. It's kind of weird, so I wear a hat all the time to cover it. I've been doing it since I was thirteen.

  Austin Mahone

  Hair, People, Trying

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• Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one and started hearing from teens. I just got an email from a reader who said that "Thirteen Reasons Why" was the first time they had felt understood. A book shouldn't be anybody's first time feeling understood and that's where censorship bothers me. These books need to be out there.

  Jay Asher

  Book, Feelings, Censorship

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

  Elvis Presley

  Thinking, Mind, Four

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