Thirteen Quotes - Page 10

• Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Writing, School

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Bantam

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• I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

  Sam Kinison

  Funny, Three, Cost

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• The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Country, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.277

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• If I have one, I'll have thirteen. No, there ain't no in-betwee. Cuz the more I drink, the more I drink, the more I drink.

  Blake Shelton

  Drinking, Cuz, Ifs

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• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

  Walter Wink

  Country, Peace, Real

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• One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

  Daniel Handler

  Kings, Queens, Popular Entertainment

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• I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.

  Craig Ferguson

  Tattoo, Beer, Years

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", en.wikiquote.org. 2005 - 2014.

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• When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

  Harper Lee

  Brother, Broken, Elbows

  Joyce Milton, Harper Lee (1984). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.30, Barron's Educational Series

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• At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

  Martin Yan

  Leaving, Hong Kong, Restaurants

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• So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for-thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.

  Lamar Trotti

  Stars, Fighting, Circles

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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Home, Opportunity

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• But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

  Mark Twain

  War, Boys, People

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3845, GENERAL PRESS

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• The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Twenties, Looks

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.

  George Polya

  Book, Obvious Things, Giving

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Thinking, Years

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• Elvis lived here until thirteen and nobody can really take that from us!

  Henry Dodge

  Redneck

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• My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

  Nick Cassavetes

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

  Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

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• Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

  Max Lerner

  Art, Teenage, Fall

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Creativity, Imagination, Beats

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

  Kate Braverman

  Space, Vampire, Each Day

  Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”

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• A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Girl, Painful

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• If I had a dreamcatcher when I was thirteen, it would have spent many long days in the dryer.

  Dana Gould

  Long, I Had A Dream, Dryers

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