Twelve Quotes

551 Twelve quotes by 468 unique authors

Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close,… — Heinrich Heine
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. — Flannery O'Connor
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose… — Olive Schreiner
We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,. — Claude Martin
How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven. — Arnold Palmer
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day. — Errol Flynn
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a… — Mike Harding
Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account. — Ian Mckellen
And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an… — Henry Adams
Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes… — Russ Roberts
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated… — Harper Lee
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. — Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. — Robert Frost
It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance. — Adolf Galland
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. — Judy Garland
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house… — Rube Goldberg
The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't… — Jennifer Granholm
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy. — Dane Cook
As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama. — Ann Coulter
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury… — Norm Crosby
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would… — Sloane Crosley
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let… — Jefferson Davis
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the… — Joan Didion
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a… — Joan Didion

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