Seventeenth Quotes

50 quotes by 44 authors

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died. — William Lilly
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is… — Bertrand Russell
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry… — Walter Dean Myers
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. — Bertrand Russell
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great… — Sylvester Stallone
I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a… — Shirley Jackson
I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. Itâ€™s still the… — Nicholas Sparks
I ate her cooking for eighteen years," he whispered. "You get used to it." "Oh yeah, when?" "I think it happened around the seventeenth year,"… — Michael Buckley
Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark,… — Justina Chen
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of… — Umberto Eco
I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth,… — Ivan Illich
It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early… — Stephenie Meyer
This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What… — Derek Landy
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near… — Sylvia Plath
He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godricâ€™s Hollow that, but… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot… — John Green
bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the… — Kami Garcia
The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because… — Mark Levin
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban… — Teju Cole

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