Quotes About Being Eighteen

#1. After I told you that we were getting married, you told me that you were days away from being eighteen. That intensified my craving for you." "That makes you sound like a pedophile.

Jettie Woodruff

#2. She had the wild look of someone who hadn't slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.

Emma Straub

#3. Minds altogether horrible in their power, and in their ignorance - which their power protected.

Fritz Leiber

#4. By giving away with kindness, you get it back with greatness.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.

Joe Frazier

#6. When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

Demetri Martin

#7. I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans.

Harry Knowles

#8. There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.

James Dobson

#9. [A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]
And I come here alone. For five
seven
eighteen
forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry ... '
So it comes with all faiths.

Rudyard Kipling

#10. Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Max Lerner

#11. I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...

Tom Petty

#12. Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. You care about looks, because you desperately want to fall in love with the stranger who will be your child.

Jana Wolff

#13. In many ways, the cycle of violence in Silo Eighteen was no different than what took place elsewhere. Beyond being more severe, it was the same waxing and waning of the mobs, of each generation revolting against the last, a fifteen-to-twenty-year cycle of bloody upheaval. Victor

Hugh Howey

#14. Feel free to look around, but being as though there aren't any people eighteen or older here, stay off the bed. I'm not allowed to get pregnant this weekend.

Colleen Hoover

#15. Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.

Andrea Dworkin

#16. But something's missing ( Aber etwas fehlt ).

Bertolt Brecht

#17. Just look at my sweater, you disgusting monster."
"Only the most flamboyant offal would be seen in a miscarriage like that. You must have some shame or at least some taste in dress.

John Kennedy Toole

#18. Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

Mark Foley

#19. Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

Paul Auster

#20. The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

James Joyce

#21. Where is Wilkins, anyway?" Cameron asked.
"In the living room, being accosted by eighteen women who think he's a stripper. I thought it was best to duck in here."
"So much for never leaving a man behind."
"If he starts screaming, I'll lay down a cover fire and go pull him out.

Julie James

#22. We expect professional and financial success to require time and effort. Why do we take success in our relationships for granted? Why should we expect harmony to come naturally just because we are in love?

Eknath Easwaran

#23. But the strange thing about anger is that it is like fire; the more you feed it, the more it grows. It takes a lot of wisdom to know when to let anger go.

Amish Tripathi

#24. Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

Dana Stabenow

#25. After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine

Stephenie Meyer

#26. So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Glen Hirshberg

#27. It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot by being like this - fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is - if anything - ever to bring it back. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#28. It's rare in the NBA, but I have a lot of young female fans from eight to eighteen because of the way I dress and the way I do my hair. People sometimes call me a pretty boy, but I embrace it. It's fun, and I guess it just kind of comes with being a good looking white guy in the league.

Chandler Parsons

#29. For women under thirty, the likelihood of being married had become astonishingly small: Today, only around 20 percent of Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine are wed,4 compared to the nearly 60 percent in 1960.

Rebecca Traister

#30. When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn't know her.

Neal Shusterman

#31. I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.

Thomas Steinbeck

#32. Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a
destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere
arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

Kenneth Turan

#33. Going to one school from age five to age eighteen was like being buried in amber. It wasn't even like his walls, which were covered with layers of things - you had to be the same person from start to finish, with no big cognitive jumps.

Emma Straub

#34. Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

Ginni Rometty

#35. I hated being imprisoned in my own home, my wolf hated it.

A.J. Young

#36. My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.

Jewel

#37. When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand.

Sean Mackin

#38. Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

John Mahoney

#39. In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely - beyond some point, almost entirely - on the things that others choose to buy.

Robert H. Frank