Being Thirteen Quotes

#1. What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Diane Duane

#2. He was as absurd as an Athenian demagogue, about whom Dr Faure had that morning been characteristically rude, since they were foreign, given to unnatural vices, and favoured democracy. Being thirteen, it was the unnatural vices that interested us.

Jonathan Grimwood

#3. Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?

Louise Hay

#4. See you later princess. Don't let leatherface catch you on your way home -Robbie

Julie Kagawa

#5. California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

Jon Stewart

#6. Do not say about anything: "I am doing that tomorrow," Unless you add: "Should God so wish! Remember your Lord whenever you might forget, and say: "perhaps my Lord will guide me even closer than this to proper behavior
Quran-Alkahf(23,24)

Anonymous

#7. Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we

Sivananda Saraswati

#8. Who the hell would consider being the female equivalent of Justin Bieber a curse? If you're whining about the world being your stage and every male on it your thirteen-year-old fan girl, then my sympathy level just dropped exponentially.

Adrianne Brooks

#9. I had become accustomed to being woken, and generally managed to fall asleep again within a few minutes. But the aggregate effect could not be ignored and I was forced to reschedule my bedtime to thirteen minutes earlier.

Graeme Simsion

#10. We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

Calvin Klein

#11. We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

Nicholas Lea

#12. Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

Kathi Appelt

#13. I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life is so uproarious, which it invariably is, there is no suitable context for the gloom.

Nick Hornby

#14. There are some things that no amount of time or patience can mend. I know that from experience.

Colleen Masters

#15. It is simply amazing, at that age, when you're thirteen or fourteen, how you can take being loved for granted, how (even when you are wanted) you can feel utterly alone.

John Irving

#16. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one ... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. She cast Oliver a hard glance. "If one of us is arrested, we've all committed to being taken to the station." "Free." He rubbed his eyes. "Anna Marie Higgins - she's the lady over there in the sailor hat - she's been taken to the station thirteen times already.

Courtney Milan

#18. 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

#19. They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.

E. M. Forster