#thirteen

Thirteen years I took on this last book. ↗

— Gay Talese

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

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 didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#another #any #art #boy #every

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#battle #church #creek #disbanded #exception

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#art

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

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#body #both #combination #harley #mind

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

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out. ↗

— Roy Harper

#better #culture #ethnically #felt #i