#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

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

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#began #century #end #prose #romances

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant. ↗

— Martin Yan

#arrived #china #hong #hong kong #i

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

— Ida Lupino

#i #nothing #path #playing #set

It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#better #canada #episodes #guys #had

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. ↗

— George Montgomery

#alcohol #began #crisis #drinking #fifty

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

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. ↗

— William Lilly

#houses #hundred #i #pounds #purchased

Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#intelligence