“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always. Conrad at twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, even seventeen years old.”

“I'm not buying this. If, if you're eleven years old, or twelve years old, thirteen, and you have a strong bond with your family, OK. Even if the guy [kidnapper] threatens you - this and that. … If you can get away, you get away.”

Bill O'Reilly (1949) American political commentator, television host and writer

“There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

“It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

“Old is always fifteen years from now.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!”

Christopher Titus (1964) actor, writer, podcaster

“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

“Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

Bernard Baruch (1870–1965) American businessman

“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die.”

Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint