Famous quotes containing the word eighteen:
“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute—a white skin.”
—Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)
““German spirit”: for the past eighteen years a contradictio in adjecto.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I lived in Judæa eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)