Definition of Thirteen

Thirteen

One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.

The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.

A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.

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Thirteen Quotations

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia Woolf

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.
Henry Knox

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
Ryan White

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
Hakeem Olajuwon

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.
Leonard Nimoy

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.
Martin Yan

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
Dave Grohl

I started writing when I was about thirteen.
Al Purdy

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham Greene

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Thirteen years I took on this last book.
Gay Talese

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
Kevin Costner

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.
Anthony Quinn

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
Jackson Browne

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
John Linder

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.
Robert Goulet

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
George William Curtis

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.
John Harvey Kellogg

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.
Steven Soderbergh

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.
Sheryl Sandberg

It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada.
Dannii Minogue

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
Ruben Blades

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
Catherine Helen Spence

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
Eddie Campbell

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
John Byng

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.
Rube Goldberg

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.
Nick Cassavetes

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.
Thomas Carper

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Thirteen Translations

thirteen in Afrikaans is dertien
thirteen in Danish is tretten
thirteen in Dutch is dertien
thirteen in Finnish is kolmastoista
thirteen in French is treize
thirteen in German is dreizehn
thirteen in Italian is tredici
thirteen in Latin is tredecim
thirteen in Norwegian is tretten
thirteen in Portuguese is treze
thirteen in Spanish is trece
thirteen in Swedish is tretton

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