Thirteen Quotes

• Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

  

  George Washington
  • Whole
  • Ruins
  • Sovereignty

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

  

  William Lilly
  • House
  • Hundred
  • Pounds

• Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • People
  • Sound
  • Albums

• Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.

  

  Al-Ghazali
  • Enemies
  • Thirteen
  • Jihad

• I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

  

  Catherine Helen Spence
  • School
  • Age
  • Teacher

• There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Together
  • Coffee
  • Half

• 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
  • Fall
  • Teenage

• 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?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Slave

• I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.

  

  DJ Ashba Beautiful Creatures
  • Guitar
  • Bars
  • Nine

• His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

  

  William Manchester
  • Courage
  • Heroism
  • Medal

• It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

  

  William Ruckelshaus
  • School
  • Justice
  • Dancing

• My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I was a gymnast for twelve or thirteen years. Then I got into surfing and now I paddle board and hike and do whatever I can. I think it's my love of the outdoors.

  

  Serinda Swan
  • Surfing
  • Boards
  • Gymnast

• My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Parents
  • Years
  • Christmas

• Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Good
  • Children
  • Father

• And this, they say, is how thirteen became the “baker’s dozen”—a custom common for over a century, and alive in some places to this day.

  

  Aaron Shepard
  • Alive
  • Custom
  • Thirteen

• My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

  

  Richard Phillips
  • Paintings
  • Imagery
  • Exhibition

• You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Purpose
  • Enemy
  • Cutting

• When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Drummer
  • Thirteen

• 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
  • World
  • Looks
  • Trouble

• One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Week
  • Hours
  • Doors

• I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Together
  • Moments
  • Alive