#thirteen

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen. ↗

— Kate Braverman

#deja-vu #faith #prophecy #teen #thirteen

I've got a dad thanks. Your just the jerk who knocked up my mum and left her to figure out what to do with a son who likes setting things on fire." - Adam Vasic ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#humor #kelly-armstrong #thirteen #humor

We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things. ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

#faith

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#being #call #child #high-risk #home

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#dark #dark side #listening #music #nature

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#barely #basic #basic needs #bills #dollars

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years. ↗

— Diane Duane

#after #being #doing #forty #forty years

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers. ↗

— Ida Lupino

#i #nothing #path #playing #set

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#because #big #convince #fact #honey

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