Nineteen

Famous quotes containing the word nineteen:

    Minerva House ... was “a finishing establishment for young ladies,” where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Now, in my middle age,
    about nineteen in the head I’d say,
    I am rowing, I am rowing....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
    James Thurber (1894–1961)