Eighteenth Quotes

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. - Black Elk

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. - Ralph A. Cram

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. - Fredrik Bajer

This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: / In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: / In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. - Bible

These city walls ain't got no love for me. I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story. - Nickelback

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. - Bible

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. - David Hare

The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work. - George Bernard Shaw

The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved. - Laurence Housman