Quotes About My 15th Birthday

#1. I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

Pico Iyer

#2. I left school on my 15th birthday.

David Bailey

#3. Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#4. More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Gertrude Stein

#5. Wandering alone in the barrenness of foolishness, I hear the drip-drip of Wisdom and smile.

Martin Cosgrove

#6. There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

Isaac Asimov

#7. You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

Frances Wright

#8. You decide for yourself when it will hurt.

Per Petterson

#9. Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

#10. The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge