Top 100 Quotes About Seventeen
#1. I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
Lord Dunsany
#2. I was seventeen when I moved to New York. I was nineteen when I joined the main company. I was going through a lot. Just becoming an adult and just wanting to fit in, be accepted, and be in common with the other dancers.
Misty Copeland
#3. For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.
Voltaire
#4. When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners
Jo Brand
#5. A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.
Harlan Coben
#6. When I was seventeen
I drank some very good beer
I drank some very good beer I purchased
With a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen
Homer
#7. Like Mrs Pleasance I always fancy that misers are old. I cannot tell why this should be since I am sure that there are as many young misers as old. As to whether or not Mr Norrell was in fact old, he was the sort of man who had been old at seventeen.
Susanna Clarke
#8. In what world is Armani here seventeen?" Cristiano shrugged unapologetically. "They feed us better in Italy.
A&E Kirk
#9. Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
Nikola Tesla
#10. I throw my arms around his neck and let him hold me. All seventeen years of me.
Colleen Hoover
#11. I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#12. If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.
Steve Martin
#13. Once upon a time, there had been a seventeen-year-old assassin who had never let anyone get closer to her. Then, with the turning of a page, her story changed forever.
Alyson Serena Stone
#14. When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a girl won a date. I went to her prom with her in Alabama, and she was a sweetheart. I didn't move to Alabama and I didn't buy a farm there, but we still keep in touch.
Josh Duhamel
#16. My parabatai, she thought, looking at Jules, standing with his back straight and his head back, the only seventeen-year-old boy in the world who could make the King of the Dark Court doubt himself.
Cassandra Clare
#17. I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.
Gordon Parks
#18. We were seventeen, furious at everything because we didn't know what else to do with the fact that the war was over.
Tea Obreht
#19. Following the rules for the past seventeen years has gotten me absolutely nowhere. I really need to do something about that.
Jessica Love
#20. Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed ... "
"You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.
Cassandra Clare
#21. State your name."
"Venice Huber."
"Occupation?"
"Well, it's hard to say. I don't model, land of the seventeen bimbos. I don't act - after all, isn't an actress just a model who won't shut up? Let's say, oh - homemaker. Could you die?
Paul Rudnick
#22. He's only been here six weeks. Nobody else has a clue what we did, and it happened seventeen years ago. There's no way he could have found out in six weeks. No way. He must be talking about something else.
Liliana Hart
#23. Anyone can discern the evils of the factory system or the Terror.
But it takes considerable wisdom to discern the evils embedded in the staccato blather of a seventeen-year-old girl.
Peter J. Leithart
#24. Irish of three hundred years ago, who thought that to kill a cat brought seventeen years bad luck. A
Grace Elliot
#25. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away ... That they walk among us. Teach our children. Inscrutable. Brass-faced.
David Foster Wallace
#26. The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls
their looks, their clothes, their social life
do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.
Elisabeth Elliot
#27. I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you're not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.
Francine Pascal
#28. No' on this raid, Wullie. A'm staying here. I have every confidence that ye'll be a fiiinne leader on this raid an' not totally mess it up like ye did the last seventeen times!
Terry Pratchett
#29. While some of us might be sitting around thinking "Nobody cares about me!", our heart is currently working its seventeen-thousandth twenty-four-hour shift - and would have every right to feel a little forgotten when its owner thinks such thoughts.
Giulia Enders
#30. They stared each other down, and while the dorky eleven-year-old in my soul kind of hoped that two hot boys might fight over me, the rational, seventeen-year-old knew that Archer need to get out of here, fast.
Rachel Hawkins
#31. The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.
Daniel H. Pink
#32. Seventeen years ago a fiery car crash in Seattle, Washington claimed the lives of David Stranson and his two-year-old daughter. The mother, Camilla, survived with severe injuries. Attached to the police
Karpov Kinrade
#33. And Bish thought it strange that seventeen-year-old girls who had sex with idiot boys could still cry like babies for their fathers.
Melina Marchetta
#34. It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I was gaining weight. When I'm playing fifty, I'm ten pounds heavier! I don't know if they thought maybe I was method? But it actually worked to my benefit.
Michelle Monaghan
#35. He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he'd keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as long as he had consciousness. He blinked seventeen times. That's a scientist, Gill said.
Jo Walton
#36. Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days ... Not all in a row.
Sam Kinison
#37. Meg makes a face and lays her hand on my arm. "And why, exactly, would John want to see Eurotrash?"
"Hello?" Ryan says. "Because he's a seventeen-year old guy with normal male urges, and she's got-" He holds both hands out from his chest.
"Really pretty eyes," I complete his sentence.
Alex Flinn
#38. At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.
L.M. Montgomery
#39. I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.
Laurence Yep
#41. How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?
Alice Cooper
#42. I Sat back in the chair, surveying the view in front of me like some savvy superhero, safe in her secret lair.
& that's when I saw it; a shadow slipping across the lower corner of camera seventeen.
Ripley Patton
#43. I scrubbed every inch of my body until it was pink and shiny, laughing hysterically because I had to use Rule's dude soap and ended up smelling like a seventeen-year-old boy who'd just discovered AXE body spray
Jay Crownover
#44. At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
Patrick DeWitt
#45. It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over - at your age, too.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#46. Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno."
"Why Fresno?"
"Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.
Richelle Mead
#47. He sees her like I do: at seventeen, twenty, thirty. Superimposed over the fourteen-year-old, he sees the woman she'll become.
And he's staking claim.
Over. my. Dead. Fucking. Body.
And I can't die.
Karen Marie Moning
#48. You have never been married? You are a spinster?" Diana laughed. "Why, she can't be above seventeen or eighteen years old, St. John," said she. "I am near nineteen: but I am not married. No.
Charlotte Bronte
#49. Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#50. At seventeen, I'm in-between. Staring at the carnival from a distance. Not sure if I want to go forward and become an adult; liking the view too much to turn back.
Kirsty Eagar
#51. It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." - George Herman "Babe" Ruth
Anonymous
#52. The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
Bruce Coville
#53. I'm seventeen today and dressed for a party. But I can't move. I can't think, much less move. I can't breathe, much less think. This is the moment when my life will change forever.
Hilary Thompson
#54. In a few short weeks, mock-marital status had ceased to be something to aspire to, and had become a cause for scorn. At seventeen, we were becoming as embittered and as unromantic as our parents.
Nick Hornby
#55. Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)
Peter Heller
#56. I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.
Ray Bradbury
#57. Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.
Mahbod Seraji
#58. They're ogling you, dude. Talking about your assets and the fact that you're nauseatingly ripped, which I would have been had I not bit the dust at seventeen. I'm forever trapped in my tall, gangly phase. (Jesse)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. Very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.
Jean Rhys
#61. What if the reason I've never let myself fall in love with a woman is because I didn't have anything to give? Because I'd already given my heart to her when we were seventeen years old? And all these years ... I've just been waiting for her to come back to me with it.
Emma Chase
#62. How old are you?"
"Seventeen," he answered promptly.
"And how long have you been seventeen?"
His lips twitched as he stared at the road. "A while," he admitted at last.
Stephenie Meyer
#63. You're seventeen! Why do I have to keep reminding you of that? There are soooo many women you haven't even met yet! Don't act like you're tired of the puss-puss, no guy is ever tired of the puss-puss.
Sara Wolf
#64. When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
Francis Ford Coppola
#65. Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me omg boner.
Leah Raeder
#66. How sympathetic you look, Anne ... as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.
L.M. Montgomery
#67. Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.
Cormac McCarthy
#68. I had four brothers, no sisters, and shared a tiny bedroom with my maiden aunt for the first seventeen years of my life. I had no choice but to write.
Margaret Hermes
#69. Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix ... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#70. Is she smiling " Cookie asked.
I looked over at her. "I think she is."
"She never smiled this early."
"Nobody smiles this early. It's illegal in seventeen states.
Darynda Jones
#71. You need to tell me why it won't work."
"Because you're seventeen and I'm eighteen. Because your first love isn't supposed to last.
Kris Noel
#72. In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it.
Daphne Zuniga
#73. Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
John Foxe
#74. I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!
Christopher Titus
#75. After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
Caroline Lawrence
#76. One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist.
One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide.
One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear.
A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.
Tahereh Mafi
#77. Alonso paid one of the guards to keep him informed on what goes on in the house when he's not around. Alonso was in the guest house entertaining a few young girls all under the age of seventeen. He had been drugging and fucking them all
Nako
#78. The person who knew you best when you were seventeen will always have a claim on you, no matter how much you change. There's something seductive and magnetic about it, the feeling of being understood like that. I suppose it goes both ways." (19)
Lauren Fox
#79. She wasn't afraid of him anymore. They weren't a centuries-old hunter and a seventeen-year-old human girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Damon and Bonnie, who had to do the best they could.
L.J.Smith
#80. The sad thing was Seventeen would remain completely unaware she was being exploited, such were the ramifications of the insidious mind control programs.
James Morcan
#81. I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me>omg>boner.
Leah Raeder
#82. Zane liked her. At least Chase thought he did, and she was gone enough on the man to be willing to accept the gospel truth from a seventeen-year-old.
Susan Mallery
#83. Above the sink in the scratched mirror he looked grubby and bloated, his beard a grizzled mess. He knew what these men could never know: A man is who he is. That doesn't change. A thief is a thief. A bad man stays a bad man underneath. He'd been set at seventeen. "You want to end
Rae Meadows
#84. Or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.'
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard.
John Green
#85. Be sure to wear green
on March seventeen,
or else Irish leprechauns
pinch your bones clean!
Richelle E. Goodrich
#86. I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
Janis Ian
#87. His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.
In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
Tahereh Mafi
#88. T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
Betty Buckley
#89. I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen
J.D. Salinger
#90. Oh, I'm sorry. My mama died when I was seventeen. She must have forgotten to teach me some manners.' ~ Chris Chambers
Destiny Booze
#91. Hannah rolled her eyes. 'I'm sixteen, almost seventeen, I have boobs, a whole bunch of hormones, and I find guys attractive. Deal with it.'
'Well, there goes my appetite.' Clark shoved his plate away, looking so despondent that I felt sorry for him.
Samantha Young
#92. Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she's come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.
Christina Baker Kline
#93. - just your basic girl next door, assuming your girl next door comes spring-loaded with seventeen ways to kill a man. Which implies a pretty interesting neighborhood that most people probably don't want to visit.
Seanan McGuire
#94. When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Max Lerner
#95. When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
Christina Aguilera
#96. I'm only seventeen. Sometimes that feels too young to have lived the life I have. Sometimes I look around at my surroundings and think, I don't belong here
Erin Watt
#97. And I was all, "Don't be gross, you crustacious fuck. You pull that thing out and I'll pepper-spray you until you fry." (You have to be stern with weenie waggers
I've been exposed to on the bus over seventeen times, so I know.)
Christopher Moore
#98. I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.
Maggie Stiefvater
#99. Have you ever even been dumped before?" Mac asked. "Yeah. Victoria Hanson." "You were seventeen then." "Still. I've been dumped and it sucked." "You got head in the library the next day." "That's how I grieve.
Lina Andersson
#100. When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.
Arthur Miller
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