Twelve Quotes · Page 5

The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than…

— Frederick Buechner

Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of…

— Cy Young

My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once,…

— Brian Lindstrom

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems…

— Eric Foner

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live…

— Patrick Ness

I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are…

— Miriam Toews

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at…

— Graeme Base

I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced,…

— Reif Larsen

After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say…

— Brené Brown

But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no district twelve.

— Suzanne Collins

And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. "It's the best in the world",…

— Billy Connolly

I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages…

— Charlize Theron

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after…

— Gennifer Flowers

And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated…

— Richard Leakey

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler,…

— Dean Koontz

Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that…

— Clare Boothe Luce

Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch…

— J. K. Rowling

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

— Jane Austen

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re…

— Jodi Picoult

I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an…

— Judy Blume

Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they…

— Blase Bonpane

Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that…

— Maggie Stiefvater

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

— Ann Coulter

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year…

— Cecily McMillan