But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It…

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

— Albert Einstein

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

— Edward Abbey

My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned…

— David F. Swensen

“Caleb frowns at him. "How old are you, anyway?" "Eighteen." "And you don't think you're too old to be with my little sister?" Tobias…

— Veronica Roth

“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he…

— William Faulkner

“She escaped from the schools when she turned eighteen. And she went on to be a Doctor, because the only way to fight what…

— Leah Bobet

“On my birthday, every year since I turned eighteen, she called me at twelve twenty in the morning to wish me happy birthday and…

— T.A. Webb

“So, what do you know about life when you’re eighteen? The rest of your life is nothing but a bunch of big beautiful tomorrows.”

— Lauren Abrams

My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I…

— Luke Pasqualino

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so…

— Diane von Furstenberg

“Forever feels a long time when you're eighteen. When you're away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant…

— Jane Green

I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen,…

— Walter Kirn

Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the…

— Jenny Han

Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned eighteen. She…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake…

— Martin Yan