Seventeenth Birthday Quotes

#1. This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?

Derek Landy

#2. I should have known he and I weren't going to make it when for my seventeenth birthday he gave me a box of microwave popcorn and a used battery tester. You know, to test batteries before I put them in my Walkman. Like you give someone when you're in love.

Tina Fey

#3. I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Walter Dean Myers

#4. That realization: Her love was a lie, just like everything else was.
The day I'd be old enough to handle it: my seventeenth birthday

A.S. King

#5. I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Lana Del Rey

#6. I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

John Dryden

#7. The warring love and hatred
love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people
that left him exhausted and sick in spirit.

Carson McCullers

#8. When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

Michael Madsen

#9. Music doesn't have a bedtime,

Garth Stein

#10. When we saw nought but beauty; when we heard The voice of that Almighty One who loved us In every gale that breathed, and wave that murmur'd!

Anonymous

#11. Now, for the first time, I wonder if this is how my mother felt. If cancer was her prison; the chemo treatments, torture. I understand it. I would rather die.

Abigail Haas

#12. We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.

Vironika Tugaleva

#13. I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

Wilbur Smith

#14. No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

Jami Attenberg

#15. I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill