Eleven Quotes - Page 11

• I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Twelve, Bookstores

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Many people claim to be liberated...it's an endless list! According to "moi", as Ms. Piggy would say, there are currently, on this earth, 12 beings who are self-realized. Eleven are men, one is a woman. Most of them are in the Far East, most of them you've never heard of and probably never will.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Men, Self

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• We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Talking, Christianity

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• The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Pigs, Expression

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• Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Daughter, Brother, Stars

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

  Evan Esar

  Two, Vegas, Income

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• My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.

  Tony Robbins

  Simple, Years, Today

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.

  Walter Lippmann

  Morning, Philosophy, Boys

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.145, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.

  Warren Farrell

  Suicide, Jobs, Loss

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.

  Gwynne Dyer

  War, Years, Innovation

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• I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents, and one day the girl fled to the woods to live amongst a pack of wolves. Hey, I was eleven, loved wolves, and had been grounded for what I felt was a minor infraction. Can you blame me?

  Victoria Laurie

  Girl, Believe, Writing

  "Chit Chatting with Author Victoria Laurie". Interview with Jill Sheets, www.relatemag.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Beats

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• What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Teacher, Boys, Years

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Country, Independent

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.268

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• Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.

  Daniil Kharms

  Jesus, Fall, Atheism

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• A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Silly, Golf

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• From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

  Diana Nyad

  Age, Usual, World

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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• My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.

  Mel Brooks

  Mother, Four, Tables

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• There are a lot of slutty girls in Canada. Eleven-year-old sluts.

  Michael Cera

  Girl, Years, Canada

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I run with a credit card and a cell phone, so when there is not a 7-Eleven around, like some of the country roads out there, I can get him to deliver a pizza to me. And I kind of give them a coordinate, a corner.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Country, Phones

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• I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

  Brendan Dooling

  Cameras, Energy, Fronts

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• By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Nature, Years, Vacuums

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.27, A&C Black

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• When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Men, Curiosity, Earth

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.114, Vintage

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• Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Summer, Food, Winter

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• Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.

  Mimi Pond

  Years, Would Be, Planning

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

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