“It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.”
Memoirs (1796)
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English historian and Member of Parliament 1737–1794Related quotes
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Edward Dowse (19 April 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
“Here sweet Meads, cool Fountains be,
Here Groves where I could spend my Age with thee.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac
Edge of Seventeen
Bella Donna (album) (1981)
“If there are any competent journalists here, I’m ready for their inquiries.”
Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist
Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 1 (p. 7)
“My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.”
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Original: (la) Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum.
Book I, epistle i, line 11
As'ad AbuKhalil (1960) professor
...the principles of Western societies... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/letter.t.html <br class="br"> The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2007/03/given-her-background-in-repressed.html
“Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 18
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The Woman at the Washington Zoo," lines 14-19
The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960)