Quotes & Sayings About Turning Nineteen

I told you, hon, I'm not a real person. This is my job. — Michael Chabon

Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all the time, some of us are thinking more and some less.
Some brains are battling and working and remembering and puzzling things over all the time and other brains are just lying down, snoring and occasionally turning over. It is to the lazy minds that I am now speaking, and from my own experience I imagine this includes nineteen people out of every twenty. I am one of that clan myself and always have been. — Ted Hughes

Finding our life's purpose is a journey not an event — Shelley J. Bridgman

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. — Horace

Why should I play the Roman fool and die On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them. — William Shakespeare

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. — James Russell Lowell

He sighed. "So I've gone and revealed how much I admire your work for nothing. Now you'll feel free to laze about self-importantly, I suppose!"
"Viridius, no," I said, stepping toward him and impulsively kissing his balding head. "I'm well aware that that's your job."
"Damned right," he grumpily. "And I've earned it, too. — Rachel Hartman

True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice. — Ben Jonson

I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things. — Duncan Roy

Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty. — John Boyne

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics. — George Osborne

I wonder if art divorced from normal and conventional living is as vital as art combined with living: in a word, would marriage sap my creative energy and annihilate my desire for written and pictorial expression which increases with this depth of unsatisfied emotion ... or would I achieve a fuller expression in art as well as in the creation of children? — Sylvia Plath

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth — Thomas Hobbes

Hailey winked, then came over to Callie. "Sit down and tell me what you need."

"A man?" she blurted, then shut her eyes. Damn. Totally not what she meant to say.

Hailey threw her head back and laughed. "It's about time you said that, although I don't know if you need a man so much as to get laid."

The other customer at the counter sputtered his coffee and Callie laughed, turning to him. "She meant that I don't need a man in my life, just an orgasm. I'm not a lesbian. Well, I made out with a couple girls when I was, like, nineteen, but that was just experimenting. It's good to make sure you're sure about what you want, you know?"

The man blushed hard, put money on the counter, and scurried away. — Carrie Ann Ryan

How about how the hell you're still a virgin at nineteen?" he said, turning his silver pools toward me. — Abbi Glines