I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better… — Glenn O'Brien Copy Share Image
I was a chubby, chubby little tub-tub. At the times when it mattered: twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. I'm so happy I was.… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months… — Susun Weed Copy Share Image
In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I learned to cook when I was ten, and I could cook a whole meal for my family by thirteen - and… — Tan France Copy Share Image
But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married,… — Lottie Moon Copy Share Image
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers. — Ida Lupino Copy Share Image
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
“There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was a gymnast for twelve or thirteen years. Then I got into surfing and now I paddle board and hike and… — Serinda Swan Copy Share Image
Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice! — George Michael Copy Share Image
Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image