Thirteen Quotes

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.

I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

I simply wanted a kiss. I was a freshman girl who had never been kissed. Never. But I liked the boy, he liked me, and I was going to kiss him. That's the story, the whole story, right there.

it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

If I had a dreamcatcher when I was thirteen, it would have spent many long days in the dryer.

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.

It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Elvis lived here until thirteen and nobody can really take that from us!

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.

He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

Lena made a face. She almost never wore makeup; she didn't have to. "You know, it's not like we all sign a contract with Maybelline when we turn thirteen.

She's thirteen. Time will remedy that.

So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for-thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

I married my husband who is thirteen years older, so I will always be a trophy wife for him.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard of these cities.

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

I was a gymnast for twelve or thirteen years. Then I got into surfing and now I paddle board and hike and do whatever I can. I think it's my love of the outdoors.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.