#thirteen

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

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances. ↗

— Chingy

#doing #got #i #into #performances

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. ↗

— Hu Shih

#century #dramas #frank #glorification #great

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

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#became #i #involved #old #photography

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

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#between #billion #canada #cent #dollars

Thirteen years I took on this last book. ↗

— Gay Talese

#i #last #teen years #thirteen #thirteen years

I started writing when I was about thirteen. ↗

— Al Purdy

#i #started #thirteen #writing