Quotes about Eighteen

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Votes: 4

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge. Votes: 4

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. Votes: 4

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Votes: 4

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. Votes: 4

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? Votes: 4

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? Votes: 4

I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love. Votes: 4

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married. Votes: 4

Some truce," Daniel said, "Eighteen days of others trying to kill her. Votes: 3

Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes! Votes: 3

Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way! Votes: 3

Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros. Votes: 3

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square. Votes: 3

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good. Votes: 3

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. Votes: 3

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live. Votes: 3

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. Votes: 3

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk. Votes: 3

Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg. Votes: 3

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live Votes: 3

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go. Votes: 3

Ah my daughter. Eighteen and already you've been accused of murder, aided felons and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see. I couldn't be prouder.- Abe Mazure Votes: 3

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing. Votes: 3

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young. Votes: 3

When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now...once he opened the car door for me in the last four years - we were on the freeway at the time. Votes: 3

Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder. Votes: 3

Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically. Votes: 3

Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to "˜Twitter' transatlantically. Votes: 3

Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground. Votes: 3

How many of them were there?' Her voice wasn't joking around. Eighteen. Hundred.' Four,' Blaylock interjected. 'An honor guard of four.' What did they work you over with? Those bruises on your thighs are severe?' Crowbars. Big, massive-' Blay cut in. 'Clubs. Had to be those ceremonial black clubs. Votes: 3

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. Votes: 2

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. Votes: 2

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. Votes: 2

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her. Votes: 2

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight Votes: 2

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen. Votes: 2

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. Votes: 2

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck. Votes: 2

Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen. Votes: 2

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. Votes: 2

It's always been 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. Votes: 2

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock. Votes: 2

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future. Votes: 2

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. Votes: 2

Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States. Votes: 2

Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully. Votes: 2

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation. Votes: 2

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. Votes: 2

I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen. Votes: 2

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit. Votes: 2

I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into. Votes: 2

There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day. Votes: 2

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. Votes: 2

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing. Votes: 2

I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted. Votes: 2

You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas. Votes: 2

I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals. Votes: 2

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives? Votes: 0

At eighteen you sleep without memories. Votes: 0

No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart. Votes: 0

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want. Votes: 0

Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool. Votes: 0

At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them. Votes: 0

Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped. Votes: 0

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. Votes: 0

Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point? Votes: 0

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record. Votes: 0

Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty. Votes: 0

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. Votes: 0

I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people. Votes: 0

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man Votes: 0

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate. Votes: 0

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all. Votes: 0

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. Votes: 0

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. Votes: 0

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing. Votes: 0

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically . Votes: 0

Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you. Votes: 0

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story. Votes: 0

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. Votes: 0

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement. Votes: 0

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond. Votes: 0

I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record. Votes: 0

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. Votes: 0

After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3 Votes: 0

My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember Votes: 0

My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember. Votes: 0

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. Votes: 0

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth. Votes: 0

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree. Votes: 0

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four... Votes: 0

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. Votes: 0

At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder. Votes: 0

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump. Votes: 0

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. Votes: 0

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life. Votes: 0

The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects. Votes: 0

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. Votes: 0

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years. Votes: 0

Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie. Votes: 0

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam. Votes: 0

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. Votes: 0

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. Votes: 0

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering. Votes: 0

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. Votes: 0

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened. Votes: 0

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest. Votes: 0

I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics! Votes: 0

Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you'd like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times. Votes: 0

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years. Votes: 0

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. Votes: 0

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink. Votes: 0

Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing. Votes: 0

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen. Votes: 0

Well I'm sixteen, close enough. Scarlett is eighteen, which makes Silas . . . wow. What does someone Silas's age want with a kid like me? Votes: 0

I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this. Votes: 0

He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself. Votes: 0

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries. Votes: 0

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. Votes: 0

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. Votes: 0

When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen. Votes: 0

Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to. Votes: 0

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice. Votes: 0

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse. Votes: 0

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise. Votes: 0

A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation. Votes: 0

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. Votes: 0

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki... Votes: 0

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe. Votes: 0

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen. Votes: 0

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound. Votes: 0

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen Votes: 0

I have only been acting since I was about eighteen. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't think there is anything else I could do. Votes: 0

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent. Votes: 0

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," Henry said. Votes: 0

The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli Votes: 0

Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts." Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts" Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do is prudent Votes: 0

I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home. Votes: 0

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then Votes: 0

Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned eighteen. She had her prom at Cannes. Votes: 0

When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand. Votes: 0

Feel free to look around, but being as though there aren't any people eighteen or older here, stay off the bed. I'm not allowed to get pregnant this weekend. Votes: 0

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. Votes: 0

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust. Votes: 0

If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides. Votes: 0

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list? Votes: 0

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38 Votes: 0

Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. Votes: 0

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it. Votes: 0

And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me. Votes: 0

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children. Votes: 0

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. Votes: 0

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it. Votes: 0

With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another. Votes: 0

Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead? Votes: 0

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else. Votes: 0

Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking. Votes: 0

I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam. Votes: 0

I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games. Votes: 0

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage. Votes: 0

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity. Votes: 0

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years. Votes: 0

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise. Votes: 0

Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial. Votes: 0

Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace" Votes: 0

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe. Votes: 0

Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace Votes: 0

I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one. Votes: 0

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it. Votes: 0

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four. Votes: 0

But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman. Votes: 0

i was joking with isabelle about vampires right before it happened. just trying to make her laugh, you know? what freaks out jewish vanpires? silver stars of david? chopped liver? check for eighteen dollars? Votes: 0

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. Votes: 0

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil. Votes: 0

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide. Votes: 0

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen. Votes: 0