Nineteen Quotes

113 Nineteen quotes by 101 unique authors

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon… — Edith Sitwell
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there.… — James Surowiecki
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. — Arnold J. Toynbee
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake… — Jodi Picoult
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. — Anne Fadiman
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. — Charles Dickens
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. — Terry Pratchett
There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is… — Anne Enright
I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he… — Jodi Picoult
I'm a big believer in first impressions," he finally said. "Tell me what your first thought was when Jason walked into the courtroom." Taylor took… — Julie James
He wanted to go running home to Mommy, what can I say? Of course, it's hard for me to believe that anyone would choose to… — Michael Grant
Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her… — Louisa May Alcott
The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the… — David Levithan
in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed.… — Jodi Picoult
Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I?… — Michael Cunningham
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two,… — Sylvia Plath
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked… — C.S. Lewis
Anthony grinned at her, knowing that would probably infuriate her all the more. "My eyes have been a-wandering, as you put it, for the last… — Johanna Lindsey
So You Want to Know All about her. Who she really is. (Was?) Why she swerved off the high road. Hard left to nowhere, recklessly… — Ellen Hopkins
This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't want a wide-hipped, sarcastic Greek girl with short hair that's permed… — Tina Fey
A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread… — Jennifer Egan
Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners… — Jennifer Egan
Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-" "He mentioned it!"… — Rick Riordan

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