My Eighteenth Birthday Quotes

#1. If tonight wasn't going to be the night - one week after my eighteenth birthday, with a limo to ourselves and no curfew - when was?

I. W. Gregorio

#2. November 30th marks Luna Hale's eighteenth birthday. Time fucking flies - I remember when she was just a baby and we'd tap each other's noses and say beep beep.

Krista Ritchie

#3. Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

Errol Morris

#4. If I allow my gaze to travel higher-which I won't-I'll see the solid gold basketball charm on a chain that my mother gave him for his eighteenth birthday nestled in his coarse, whorled chest hair.
My front teeth throb as the memory of the charm bangs against them.

Laura Wiess

#5. Shame is also a covert and effective bullying method. All those bullies from the seventh grade didn't simply evaporate. They grew up, too, and it's pretty safe to assume that the majority did not seek therapy on their eighteenth birthday to explore their disturbing childhood need for cruelty.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. She had hauled out Grandma O'Donnell's crystal plates, the ones Gram claimed were hand-cut by our distant relatives in County Kerry during the potato famine. She also said Big Foot crashed her eighteenth birthday party.

Susan Kaye Quinn

#7. Even Confined children deserve a chane of life. That's why there's a retrial on their eighteenth birthday.
- The Chancellor

You know none of them will be pardoned. We can't afford the resources -
-Vice Chancellor RHodes

Kass Morgan

#8. First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.

Charlie Parker

#9. The library, I presume," he said quietly. "I've a fondness for libraries.

Lorraine Heath

#10. Look at the blue of the sky and tell me why you held back. Did you think there would one day be a bluer sky and a better hour?

Morrissey

#11. There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.

Louisa May Alcott

#12. I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

Jean Kerr

#13. By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster.

L.E. Sterling

#14. Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Halle Berry

#15. I'm scared of snakebites - that's the origin of cowboy boots, protection - but my toes need to breathe.

Gavin McInnes

#16. Gotta say you Portland people take weird to a new level.

Devon Monk

#17. Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Richard Baxter

#18. It's strange though. People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore, do you? It's just the way they look.

Alex Flinn

#19. If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

E. Jean Carroll

#20. The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.

Lauren DeStefano

#21. We had talked about taking a bus to Cincinnati on your eighteenth birthday. It was the only connection any of the three of us had to anywhere and we knew we needed to leave town. He probably didn't even have time to tell you that plan.

Mia Sheridan

#22. I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

Jane Smiley

#23. Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#24. On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.

Angela Carter