Quotes about Seventeen

I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think. Votes: 3

Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis. Votes: 3

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. Votes: 3

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive. Votes: 3

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.' Votes: 3

Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking. Votes: 3

The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be. Votes: 3

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs. Votes: 3

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film. Votes: 3

How old are you?" "Seventeen," he answered promptly. "And how long have you been seventeen?" His lips twitched as he stared at the road. "A while," he admitted at last. Votes: 3

How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?" "Seventeen and two fifths." Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones. Votes: 3

I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish. Votes: 3

Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning? Votes: 3

How old are you?" she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. "Seventeen." "And how long have you been seventeen?" I tried not to smile at the patronizing tone. "A while," I admitted. "Okay," she said, abruptly enthusiastic. She smiled up at me. Votes: 3

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row. Votes: 2

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things. Votes: 2

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again. Votes: 2

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen. Votes: 2

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. Votes: 2

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Votes: 2

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons. Votes: 2

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions. Votes: 2

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. Votes: 2

I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too. Votes: 2

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. Votes: 2

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen. Votes: 2

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. Votes: 2

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. 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

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that. Votes: 2

An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting. Votes: 2

I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English. Votes: 2

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. Votes: 2

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. Votes: 2

When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a girl won a date. I went to her prom with her in Alabama, and she was a sweetheart. I didn't move to Alabama and I didn't buy a farm there, but we still keep in touch. Votes: 2

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity. Votes: 2

After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers. Votes: 2

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. Votes: 2

No one's serious at seventeen. Votes: 0

Only the Dead stay seventeen forever. Votes: 0

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. Votes: 0

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen. Votes: 0

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . . Votes: 0

Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen. Votes: 0

Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis seventeen times in a row. Votes: 0

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips. Votes: 0

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love. Votes: 0

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. Votes: 0

I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death. Votes: 0

I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four. Votes: 0

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are. Votes: 0

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm. Votes: 0

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal? Votes: 0

I did act as a kid, but I quit when I was seventeen. Votes: 0

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write. Votes: 0

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. Votes: 0

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. Votes: 0

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on. Votes: 0

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely. Votes: 0

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! Votes: 0

I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction. Votes: 0

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. Votes: 0

I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace. Votes: 0

I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left. Votes: 0

When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get. Votes: 0

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen. Votes: 0

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived. Votes: 0

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home. Votes: 0

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live. Votes: 0

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course. Votes: 0

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners Votes: 0

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas. Votes: 0

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it. Votes: 0

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen. Votes: 0

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years. Votes: 0

I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes. Votes: 0

Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring. Votes: 0

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. Votes: 0

I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life." Votes: 0

Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm! Votes: 0

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards. Votes: 0

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING. Votes: 0

Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity. Votes: 0

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me........ Votes: 0

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you're not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet. Votes: 0

She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words. Votes: 0

Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show for MTV, Pimp My Boat. Votes: 0

Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did. Votes: 0

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away. Votes: 0

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. Votes: 0

It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number. Votes: 0

Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero. Votes: 0

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. Votes: 0

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym. Votes: 0

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from. 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 you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy. Votes: 0

It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old. Votes: 0

Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno." "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice. Votes: 0

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one. Votes: 0

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one." Votes: 0

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it. Votes: 0

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific. Votes: 0

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance. Votes: 0

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroineBut from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine Votes: 0

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same. Votes: 0

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine... Votes: 0

The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get. Votes: 0

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside. Votes: 0

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing. Votes: 0

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations. Votes: 0

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse. Votes: 0

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep. Votes: 0

And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out. Votes: 0

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that Votes: 0

But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things. Votes: 0

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable Votes: 0

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it. Votes: 0

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. Votes: 0