Quotes about Sixteen

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen. Votes: 6

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. Votes: 6

Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight. Votes: 6

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS. Votes: 6

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. Votes: 6

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. Votes: 6

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. Votes: 6

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. Votes: 6

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. Votes: 6

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. Votes: 6

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. Votes: 6

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that. Votes: 6

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. Votes: 6

Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see. Votes: 6

I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy same maturity level. Votes: 4

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. Votes: 4

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going. Votes: 4

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school. Votes: 4

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. Votes: 4

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. Votes: 4

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ. Votes: 4

If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; the last sixteen years; or the last fifty years of life, doesn't mean anything... All that matters is: What are you going to do, right now? Votes: 4

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent. Votes: 4

Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis. Votes: 3

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it. Votes: 3

I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous Votes: 3

Stupid Sixteen year old kid falling from the sky! I'm late! Votes: 3

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal? Votes: 3

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things. Votes: 3

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere. Votes: 3

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down. Votes: 3

Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years Votes: 3

But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it. Votes: 3

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level. Votes: 3

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote. Votes: 3

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book Votes: 3

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player. Votes: 3

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you're not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet. Votes: 3

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic. Votes: 3

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology. Votes: 3

When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player. Votes: 3

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war. Votes: 3

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. Votes: 3

When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself. Votes: 3

I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy.Yeah right." Votes: 3

I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy. Yeah right. Votes: 3

The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire Votes: 3

It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected. Votes: 3

Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks. Votes: 3

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. Votes: 3

I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Dirty Dancing,' etc., with 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' existing on a separate, slightly higher plane. Votes: 3

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. Votes: 2

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty. Votes: 2

Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age. Votes: 2

Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive. Votes: 2

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls. Votes: 2

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. Votes: 2

I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show. Votes: 2

In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.' Votes: 2

The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty. Votes: 2

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it. Votes: 2

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker. Votes: 2

It took me sixteen years to write. Votes: 0

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. Votes: 0

being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions Votes: 0

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen. Votes: 0

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement. Votes: 0

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. Votes: 0

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing. Votes: 0

Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day. Votes: 0

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely. Votes: 0

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Votes: 0

When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys. Votes: 0

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment. Votes: 0

Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts. Votes: 0

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel. Votes: 0

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible. Votes: 0

Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does. Votes: 0

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen. Votes: 0

But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be. Votes: 0

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. Votes: 0

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years. Votes: 0

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans. Votes: 0

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. Votes: 0

Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah. Votes: 0

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant. Votes: 0

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. Votes: 0

If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they're male, shoot 'em. Kill every male you see. Votes: 0

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. Votes: 0

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old. Votes: 0

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy. Votes: 0

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. Votes: 0

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect. Votes: 0

Maybe you's a stank ho, maybe that's a bit mean/Maybe you grew up and I'm still living like I'm sixteen Votes: 0

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault. Votes: 0

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. Votes: 0

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. Votes: 0

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about. Votes: 0

Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints." Votes: 0

todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school. Votes: 0

Well I'm sixteen, close enough. Scarlett is eighteen, which makes Silas . . . wow. What does someone Silas's age want with a kid like me? Votes: 0

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. Votes: 0

When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades. Votes: 0

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it. Votes: 0

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves. Votes: 0

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them. Votes: 0

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety. Votes: 0

There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating? Votes: 0

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it; Votes: 0

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month. Votes: 0

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old. Votes: 0

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer. Votes: 0

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course. Votes: 0

He's mad at me.""For what?""For not being like him."Eleanor looked dubious. "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?""Basically. Votes: 0

In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald. Votes: 0

How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131) Votes: 0

My mom said I wasn't allowed to date until I was sixteen, but I broke that rule. She found out and said, 'I'm disappointed in you.' Votes: 0

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer. Votes: 0

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous. Votes: 0

It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one-pound of beef! Votes: 0

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper. Votes: 0

I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went. Votes: 0

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen. Votes: 0

At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad. Votes: 0

I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when I was sold on it. Votes: 0

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. Votes: 0

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch. Votes: 0

The sixteen hundred dairies in California's Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that's more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined. Votes: 0

I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter. Votes: 0

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena. Votes: 0

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go. Votes: 0

No dates until you're sixteen. And no boyfriends, either.' I'm not quite sure how to tell Mom, but it looks like I don't just have one boyfriend. I have two. Votes: 0

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history Votes: 0

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again. Votes: 0

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else. Votes: 0

She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker. Votes: 0

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be"”or to be indistinguishable from"”self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. Votes: 0

They agreed on a rendezvous, and Laurent took off with the restrained urgency of a man who has to find some way to hide sixteen hands of bay gelding behind a shrub." Votes: 0

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me. Votes: 0

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane. Votes: 0

You know why they say that, that models are too skinny? Because parents are horrible, they can't tell their sixteen year old daughter she's not really a princess, well guess what, I can. Votes: 0

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed. Votes: 0

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily. Votes: 0

Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial. Votes: 0

Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly. Votes: 0

you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally Votes: 0

I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night. Votes: 0

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult. Votes: 0

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind. Votes: 0

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years. Votes: 0

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me "” yet "” the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me. Votes: 0

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time. Votes: 0

But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil. Votes: 0

Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please. Votes: 0

The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage. Votes: 0

She squared her shoulders against his charmsIt depends on who kisses me. I highly suspect a kiss from you would instantly void sixteen years of savings.""What good are savings if you never spend them?" Votes: 0

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting Votes: 0