Quotes & Sayings About Happy Sweet Seventeen

What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce? — Sam Walton

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward. — Joel Osteen

Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows. — David Mitchell

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth. — Pierre Omidyar

Mess with a magical chic and you get some major clean-up when she is pissed!!! — Mandy M. Roth

Low gravity Monopoly is better than the Monopoly you play round the kitchen table, in that it only lasts a few minutes. — Frank Cottrell Boyce

My father once told me that it's not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him. — Henry Mosquera

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

Inside, they pretended they would dream, but they did not. They sprawled on the living room sofa and Adam studied the tattoo that covered Ronan's back: all the sharp edges that hooked wondrously and fearfully into each other.
'Unguibus et rostro,' Adam said.
Ronan put Adam's fingers to his mouth.
He was never sleeping again. — Maggie Stiefvater

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. — Warren Buffett

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that. — Nina Arianda

I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. — Margaret Atwood

We dispute the arbitrary distribution of power and wealth, which is claimed as the natural order, but which is in fact not natural at all but rather artificially created and sustained by ancient privileges. — Kate Elliott

I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience. — Rowan Atkinson