Thirteen Quotes

• Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

  Erma Bombeck

  Summer, Mother, Hurt

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• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, April, Cold

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

  George William Curtis

  Teenage, Mistake, Believe

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• I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.

  Jay Asher

  Giving Up, Listening, Too Late

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.146, Penguin

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• I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

  Jay Asher

  Listening, Tape, Stories

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.17, Penguin

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• No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

  Jay Asher

  Life, Impact, People

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, Penguin

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• And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

  Sojourner Truth

  Mother, Strong Women, Jesus

  Sojourner Truth, “Ain't I A Woman?”

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• The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Twenties, Looks

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• If I had a dreamcatcher when I was thirteen, it would have spent many long days in the dryer.

  Dana Gould

  Long, I Had A Dream, Dryers

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• But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

  Mark Twain

  War, Boys, People

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3845, GENERAL PRESS

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• One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

  Daniel Handler

  Kings, Queens, Popular Entertainment

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• When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

  Harper Lee

  Brother, Broken, Elbows

  Joyce Milton, Harper Lee (1984). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.30, Barron's Educational Series

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• A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Girl, Painful

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• I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

  Kate Braverman

  Space, Vampire, Each Day

  Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”

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• Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Creativity, Imagination, Beats

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.

  Craig Ferguson

  Tattoo, Beer, Years

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", en.wikiquote.org. 2005 - 2014.

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• Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

  Max Lerner

  Art, Teenage, Fall

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

  Nick Cassavetes

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

  Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

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• Elvis lived here until thirteen and nobody can really take that from us!

  Henry Dodge

  Redneck

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• So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for-thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.

  Lamar Trotti

  Stars, Fighting, Circles

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• If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.

  George Polya

  Book, Obvious Things, Giving

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

  Martin Yan

  Leaving, Hong Kong, Restaurants

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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Home, Opportunity

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• When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Thinking, Years

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