Top 338 Thirteen Quotes & Sayings

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

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

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.

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

If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

I am beyond excited to be working with the BBC as part of the cast of 'Thirteen.'

I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

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

Amazing, then, how with that one remark, he made a mortifying situation thirteen times worse.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

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

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

'Thirteen Orphans' is the name of a specific limit hand. The same combination is also called 'Thirteen Improbable.' Once I'd decided I wanted to write a tale where mah-jong would be at the heart, I also knew I wanted to use limit hands.

I love the Betsy Ross flag because it has the thirteen stars and a circle, which represents our thirteen colonies, and I think we need to get closer back to our founding values.

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

She's thirteen. Time will remedy that.

(Don) Sutton lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame.

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

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

I used to play 'Grand Theft Auto' when I was an early teen, between eleven and thirteen.

I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen.

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

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

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

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

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

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

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

Thirteen was my brother's number.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

You might be a redneck if your favorite T-shirt is offensive in thirteen states.

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle.

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

Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13 has been so important in the history of the United States and in the symbols of the seal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the thirteen courses of the pyramid may represent thirteen time-periods of thirteen years each.

I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation.

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

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

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.