47 Seventeen Quotes for You to Enjoy

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Hank Aaron

Me Three Took Seventeen Seventeen Years Thousand Course Years Get Did Hits Golf Afternoon Golf Course Baseball

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen. Mick Jagger

Me Care Face Long Seventeen Say About dont Care Page They Say

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again. Hussein of Jordan

Seventeen Dream Would Never Knew Schoolboy End Again

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. Jerry Saltz

Good Final Seventeen Nineteen Seventeen Years Drastically Broke Carrying Finish Constraints Delicacy Through Gnarly His Years Off Impressionism After Disintegrated Happily Notion Paintings Ever Ever After Images Starting

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table. Louise Erdrich

Home Age Air Force School Mother Father Reservation Living Air Seventeen Way Table Winning Through Had He Poker Adventurous She Force Got Been His His Way Mountain Just Taught Expenses Worked Bill Paid Turtle Teaching Lived Credentials Her Alaska

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. Steve Irwin

You Animal Matter Rare Example Seventeen Way Those Says Favorite Out Crocodile Take For Example Know Does Endangered Anyone Species

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Mom Me Problem Low Expectations Big Seventeen Kid Those Would Point Had Like She Very Expectations Big Problem Same Low Really

My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children. Arthur Lewis

Success Love Age Mother Father Seven Seventeen Sons Combined Most Make Known Gentleness Leaving Five Person Died Children Working Each Ever Hardest Her Widow

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work. Benjamin Bratt

Work Death You Will Made Men Seventeen Seventeen Years One Thing Bored Boredom Over Mostly Years The One Thing Uniform Your Show Actor Thing Cops Last Playing Career

An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting. Bipasha Basu

Life Experience Competition School Old My Life Seventeen Later Seventeen Years Supermodel Winning Point Contest Got How Still Years Won Modeling December Just Happened Unforgettable While Then Turning Turning Point Acting Started

I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral. Blake Lively

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

Teacher Time Remember Seriously Long First Thinking Gave Our Seventeen Would Write Writer Long Story Like Period First Time Becoming Doing Came Grade Sixth Loved Story Us Working Extended Started

In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen. Chuck Hogan

Book King Back Seventeen Once Seventh TV Horror Horror Movies Feature Rite Weekly Never Red Between Missed Red Sox Became Passage Shift Italian Years Hit Report Did Grade Sox Afternoon Formative Movies Double Forth Meant Even Creature Switching Saturday Night

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that. Daniel Radcliffe

When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy. Dominique Moceanu

The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get. Douglas Booth

You Man First Young Seventeen Eyebrows Lead Leading Leading Man Shaved Looks Boy George Off Get Far Ever Played

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old. Elizabeth Hand

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

Remember Tears Thought Playwright Everything Seventeen Way Weak No Talent Writer Had Talent Wrote Because Falling Sixteen Wanted Asleep

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

Home Country Seventeen Since Been Years Now Second Second Home Thirteen

I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. I. M. Pei

Life Me Architecture Seventeen Seventeen Years Background Say Studied Came Years Western America Formative Technical

I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had. James Salter

Me Father Vain Else Seventeen Enter Hoped Would Poems More More Than Anything Point Had He Spoiled Knew Remote West West Point Than Wanted Anything Anything Else Succeed Prepared

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off. Jim Dale

Stage Tremendous Seventeen Saw Kid Cripple Guilty Clap Would Some More Feel Because Boy Limp Off End Walking Than Get Just Burst Poor Act Applause

My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea. Jim Yong Kim

Time Mother Father Relatives Seen Parents Seventeen Saw Border Some Brothers Never He Since Himself Korea Korean Came His North Sisters North Korean Died Any Refugee Then Across

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