Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
~By Willa Cather ~
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
~By John Burroughs ~
Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.
~By Anthony Quinn ~
Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.
~By John Walters ~
The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.
~By Rupert Holmes ~
I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.
~By Jimmy Dean ~
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
~By Billie Holiday ~
There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
~By Ben Affleck ~
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
~By Olga Korbut ~
The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
~By Natalie Portman ~
When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing.
~By Joseph Gordon-Levitt ~
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
~By Eddie Campbell ~
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
~By Spike Milligan ~
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
~By John Knowles ~
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
~By Cass Sunstein ~
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
~By William O. Douglas ~
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
~By Joan Chen ~
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.
~By Steve Burns ~
What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
~By Diane Duane ~
I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.
~By Kurtis Blow ~
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
~By Joan of Arc ~
I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
~By John Cusack ~
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.
~By Helena Rubinstein ~
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
~By Robert Higgs ~
Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
~By Philip Roth ~
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
~By Black Elk ~
I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.
~By Robin Gibb ~
Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
~By Boy George ~
It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.
~By Jami Gertz ~
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.
~By Jimmy Smith ~
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
~By Pete Seeger ~
Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!
~By Mila Kunis ~
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.
~By Ethel Rosenberg ~
Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
~By Mark McGwire ~
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
~By Wilhelm Ostwald ~
I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.
~By Jimmy Smith ~
I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.
~By Val Guest ~
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
~By Betty Ford ~
The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.
~By John Carpenter ~
When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
~By Virginia Woolf ~
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
~By George Seaton ~
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
~By Hakeem Olajuwon ~
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
~By Marie Stopes ~
I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.
~By Tommy Chong ~
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.
~By Diane Wood ~
When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.
~By Dave Lombardo ~
I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
~By David Wilkerson ~
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
~By Brian Clough ~
More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.
~By Mindy Cohn ~
Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
~By Dana Hill ~
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
~By E. B. White ~
The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.
~By George Armstrong Custer ~
Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.
~By Jay Leno ~
I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.
~By Jerry Mathers ~
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
~By Sam Kinison ~
I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.
~By Jonny Greenwood ~
We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.
~By Sue Johanson ~
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
~By Lech Walesa ~
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
~By William Lilly ~
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
~By Michael Jackson ~
When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
~By George Stephen ~
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
~By Gary Cole ~
I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
~By Sibel Edmonds ~
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
~By Horace Mann ~
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
~By Danielle Steel ~
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
~By Diane Duane ~
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.
~By Robert Kirkman ~
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
~By John Cale ~
When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
~By M. Night Shyamalan ~
By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.
~By Frank Frazetta ~
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