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21 " For the first time he considers the full emotional dimensions of the day. His life is changing but his parent’s lives are changing too. Like a habitat, abruptly deprived of a major species, the household will be wrenched into realignment by his departure. Like all young people, he has no idea who his parents really are. For 18 years he has experienced their existence only in so far as it is related to his own needs. Suddenly his mind is full of questions. What do they talk about when he's not around? What secrets do they hold from each other? What aspirations have been left to languish? What private grievances held in check by the shared project of child rearing will now in his absence, lurch into the light? "
― Justin Cronin , The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
22 " Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as " armed teens" ? "
23 " Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same. "
― Hayao Miyazaki
24 " Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview. "
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
25 " There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration. "
― John Baker
26 " When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible. "
― , The Trouble With Women
27 " During my road trip of life I have encountered many potholes, areas under construction, delays caused by others on the same road, and 18 wheelers that seemed like they were only there to prevent me from arriving at my destination. Through it all my next stop is just down the road and I still have my 4 tires (faith, health, family, and friends) It's also so important to remember the Lord just lets you THINK you're in the drivers seat, its up to you to KNOW who is really in control. "
28 " You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - spoken by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about a month, when I was 18 years old! "
29 " You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - - said to me by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about 30 days, when I was 18 years old! "
30 " For almost 18 years you’re taught to sit down, shut up, and raise your hand. Then you have to decide what you’re going to do for the rest of your life. "
31 " From 1 to 18 is the holly worst parts of your life, you are caged and you can't do anything times passes events happen different today your granpa is alive, but tomorrow probably he will die or the next month or later-later. But what can it be done for that?? "
― Deyth Banger
32 " I have a Siamese twin cat. It's got 2 heads and 18 lives. "
― M.J. McGuire
33 " I've got a Siamese cat. It has 2 heads and 18 lives. "
34 " p 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face in the same primeval forest. That we are here today evidences their victory. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
35 " Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back. I can give myself up to the sacred frenzy, I can have the insolence to make a full confession to mortal men that I have stolen the golden vessel of the Egyptians to make from them a tabernacle for my God far from the confines of the land of Egypt. If you forgive me I shall rejoice; if you are angry, I shall bear it; I am indeed casting the die and writing the book, either for my contemporaries or for posterity to read, it matters not which: let the book await its reader for a hundred years; God himself has waited six thousand years for his work to be seen. "
― Johannes Kepler , Harmonies Of The World
36 " Blaming the library for exposure to pornography is like blaming the lake if your child walks up to it alone, falls in and then drowns. – David Sawyer, Spokesman-Review, 18 December 2000 "
37 " Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. "
38 " From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don’t look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity. "
― Flannery O'Connor , The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
39 " Think about it. When you reach 18 you're no longer an underage drinker. This means that drinking is no longer an act of rebellion, and so there's no point in doing it any more. You've got to find some other way of looking hard in front of your friends, like attaching weights to your testicles and swimming naked through the snapping turtle pond at the zoo "
― Andre the BFG , Andre's Adventures in MySpace (Book 1)
40 " Oops! We thought he had a gun!’ So you shot me in the back three times ’cause you thought I had a gun? I was gonna sue, but they said they was gonna kill me. I was 18 years old, I didn’t have nobody, I didn’t have all this. They kept pickin’ me up, kept lockin’ my ass up, beating me, until I dropped the lawsuit. When I dropped the lawsuit, that’s when everything stopped. That’s what the fuck happened to me. I was terrorized by some terrorists. "
― , Ferguson in Black and White (Kindle Single)