#seventeen

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again. ↗

— King Hussein

#dream #end #i #knew #never

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. ↗

— Janis Ian

#clear #high #high school #i #learned

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#had #i #kind #like #money

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#bone #both #by the time #first #fort

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#camp #could #counsellor #eight #far

Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again. For some it is at seven, for others at seventeen or seventy, and as Laura Fleischman read out loud from Shakespeare, I remember thinking that for her it was probably just then. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#seven #seventeen #seventy #shakespeare #beauty

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#cases #day #days #drill #fifteen

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#appeared #cholera #down #end #fearful

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#assignments #been #besides #doing #i