Navajo men and boys have an odd way of showing their friendship. When two young men meet at the trading post, a "Sing", or a dance... they greet each other, inquire about the health of their respective families, then stand silently some ten or fifteen minutes while one feels the other's arms, shoulders, and chest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Citizens' Protective League of Denver, founded to "squelch the knocking and blackmailing newspapers in our beautiful but benig...hted city," demanded that no news story, editorial, or advertisement unfit for fifteen-year-olds to read should be published, ....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no ch...oice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid's geometry... And Newton's mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her lif...e, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... much less time should be given to school, and much more to domestic employments, especially in the wealthier classes. A little... girl may begin, at five or six years of age, to assist her mother: and, if properly trained, by the time she is ten, she can render essential aid. From this time, until she is fourteen or fifteen, it should be the principal object of her education to secure a strong and healthy constitution, and a thorough practical knowledge of all kinds of domestic employments. During this period, though some attention ought to be paid to intellectual culture, it ought to be made altogether secondary in importance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys th...at do not turn to dross in one's hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too fa...mous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »