#teen

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing. ↗

— Marie Carmichael Stopes

#beauty #credit #doing #own #sixteen

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ↗

— Marie Stopes

#beauty #credit #doing #own #sixteen

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#came #courage #facts #found #had

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#ban #basis #fourteenth #history #matter

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. ↗

— David Talbot

#anti-war #bobby #california #came #campaign

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#embassy #hour #i #members #personally

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#anyone #doing #else #fact #i

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. ↗

— Andy Grove

#during #era #fantasy #growing #growing up

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#both #i #teen

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