Happy Sweet Seventeen Birthday Quotes & Sayings

If I were being honest with myself, he lit a blaze, not just a blush, but that's too much reality for me to admit. — S.L. Scott

I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere. — Damian Marley

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: 'Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;' or maybe just: 'Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.'
And then smile very serenely until they say, 'Oh. — Cheryl Strayed

He was holding his right leg, but the blood soaked through his fingers and flowed over his hand onto his sleeve. Intuition had served me again this time: my kick had knocked his automatic out of his grasp a fraction of a second before he could press the trigger. The second kick was to his face. It sent him flying about six feet. I set my sights on his head, but something stopped me, one of our guys let out a yelp behind me. Another bullet whistled by right next to me. Apparently, this Mujahadeen was not the only one here. Again, I aimed at his head, but something again stopped me. I saw how his hands were trembling. I noticed the horror in his eyes. 'He is only a boy!' I thought and pressed the trigger. — Vladislav Tamarov

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey? — Jeff Smith

We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare. — Alexander Hamilton

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. — Joseph Conrad

Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait. — Neil Diamond

The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history. — Kate Wilhelm

The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear. — Helen H. Gardener

I go to a Calvary Chapel church out here in Los Angeles. I had been here about two years at the time. I'm very close with my church, very close with the pastor and his wife, and I work with a girls' ministry here. — Tiffany Dupont

One by one we come to God, young and old, wealthy and homeless, we are diverse: not one of us is alike. Yet similar, we're all learning to live the life God promised, and longing to be fulfilled. — Danise Jurado

But God doesn't just hang there while we get on with the rest of our week. He's up to a lot of other really cool stuff. Let's follow Him around and be part of it. I'm in! Are you? — Bonnie Lyn Smith

A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colors of the twilight sky. — Victoria Kahler