#teen years

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#adult #basic #children #even #fifteen

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS. ↗

— Ryan White

#am #i #i am #name #old

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#church #eighteen #establish #heart #holy

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#because #caused #controversy #eligible #fame

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#always #am #fifteen #i #i am

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life. ↗

— Nick Cassavetes

#daughter #diagnosed #disease #four #had

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things. ↗

— Dane Cook

#did #explore #i #need #other

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#been #before #different #each #fascinated

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#company #during #encompassing #ever #fifteen

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#default #doing #i #i think #idol