Quotes About 17 Year Olds

#1. Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds.

Monica Seles

#2. I don't believe that 17-year-olds get happy endings. They get beginnings.

Rainbow Rowell

#3. Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

Lucy Powell

#4. In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

Bonnie Raitt

#5. There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds ... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!

Bob Mould

#6. It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read.

Newt Gingrich

#7. I didn't write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don't get endings.
They get beginnings.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. They already know all about brands ... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is experience of the world of work. The more that businesses get involved with schools, the better, because businesses sometimes complain that students don't have what they require to succeed in work.

Philip Green

#9. I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

Lea Michele

#10. Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

John Ruskin

#11. What is it about power, that it has to be higher up than everyone else? Can a man not be powerful on the ground floor?

Joe Abercrombie

#12. Wildflowers abound somewhere I'm sure
I don't know anything about flowers though
Few of us in the cities follow them
the way you seem to as if tracking currencies

Michael Homolka

#13. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

Carl Sagan

#14. Maximum Sustained Power (MSP) training is a novel approach that improves absolute power,

Mark Sisson

#15. Sparks are warm while they last.

Susan Price

#16. Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

Jodi Picoult

#17. Men, we don't need you in shining armor.
We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.

Virginia Madsen

#18. Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

Darren Gough

#19. I wish you could feel that for me now.

Elizabeth Finn

#20. To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. Always an even trade, Sorceress. Save our skins, we'll save yours.

Steven Erikson

#22. Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

Geraldine Laybourne

#23. Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?

Fulton J. Sheen

#24. The pirates left the boat in the Thames, next to the Palace of Westminster. They deliberately parked across two disabled spaces, because that kind of behaviour was pretty much the whole point of being a pirate.

Gideon Defoe

#25. Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself
Becoming One with its object; Producing Unity of Being.

Hakim