Seventeenth Quotes

50 Seventeenth quotes by 44 unique authors

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. It’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 Godric’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
In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that… — John Tyler Bonner
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named… — Alice Morse Earle
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some… — Alice Morse Earle
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years… — Alice Morse Earle
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended… — Alice Morse Earle
The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based… — Sherwin B. Nuland
A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing… — John Updike
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. — John Updike
About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets. — Samuel Johnson
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing… — Rick Moody

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