Twelve Quotes

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.

We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.

I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.

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

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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.

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.