#seventeen

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#baseball #course #did #get #golf

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#attained #endowed #energy #extremely #feet

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off. ↗

— Jim Dale

#applause #because #boy #burst #clap

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#country #home #i #now #second

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. ↗

— Max Lerner

#serious #seventeen #you

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

— King Hussein

#dream #end #i #knew #never

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'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

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen. ↗

— Noel Redding

#gone #i #professional #seventeen

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row. ↗

— Sam Kinison

#days #folks #i #row #seventeen