#eighteen

The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#born #child #claims #eighteenth #family

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam. ↗

— Carre Otis

#bar #born #dad #eighteen #exam

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#because #burden #eighteen #especially #family

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#age #collection #common #common sense #eighteen

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ↗

— Mark Twain

#approach #born #could #eighteen #eighty

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#days #eighteen #go #japan #means

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? ↗

— Mark Twain

#common #eighteen #had #humanity #most

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#columbia university #continue #eighteen #graduate #graduate student

What if I just want to die?" "Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life. ↗

— Megan Bostic

#book #never-eighteen #life

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. ↗

— John Burroughs

#civilization #development #did #done #eighteen