Quotes About Eighteenth Birthday

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

L.E. Sterling

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you'll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices.

Jeanette Coron

#12. You've got to quit judging people just because they have an 'R' or a 'D' in front of their name. We don't do that in Oklahoma.

Markwayne Mullin

#13. But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort. She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not.

Herman Melville

#14. You are what you are, and I'd rather be myself than try and be what I'm not.

Georgia Groome

#15. The ability to arrive uninvited in an alien land and convince one's hosts that almost everything they believe is wrong requires a rather forceful personality.

Mark Adams

#16. There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

Susan Jeffers

#17. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.

Tahereh Mafi

#18. The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so exhausted F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was at last brought down to the point where he could no longer be both a good writer and a decent person.

Nelson Algren

#19. Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

Danny Fox