Thirteen Quotes · Page 5

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just…

— Graham Greene

Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.

— Dean Koontz

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

— Dave Grohl

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…

— Lamar Trotti

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do…

— Ethan Hawke

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if…

— Sarah Strohmeyer

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made…

— Gretchen Rubin

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

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering.…

— Anonymous

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

— Harper Lee

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen…

— Thomas Jefferson

When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young…

— Rhys Ifans

Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.

— Frank Zappa

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

— Anonymous

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

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and…

— E. Lockhart

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and…

— Kamala Harris

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you…

— Nick Hornby

I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had…

— Shirley Jackson

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but…

— Roy Harper

it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all…

— Lauren Oliver

I'm only thirteen, so I have role-models! But I've sort of experienced... my sister has always been my role-model because I've always…

— Elle Fanning

If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of…

— Walter Cronkite

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.

— Terry Carr

Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three…

— Catherynne M. Valente