Famous quotes containing the words eighteen years, age, eighteen and/or years:
“Its my feeling that God lends you your children until theyre about eighteen years old. If you havent made your points with them by then, its too late.”
—Betty Ford (b. 1918)
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“German spirit: for the past eighteen years a contradictio in adjecto.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
—Auberon Waugh (b. 1939)