Sixteen Quotes

• 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.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Music, Eight

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• 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.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Boys, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  James Caan

  Baseball, Kids, Player

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Simple, Reason Why, Written

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Trying, Behavior

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• 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.

  Francine Pascal

  Sweet, Good Things, Seventeen

  Francine Pascal (2014). “My First Love and Other Disasters: My First Love and Other Disasters; Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo; My Mother Was Never a Kid”, p.653, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.'

  Justin Bieber

  Mom, Broke, Found

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• 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.

  Phyllis Diller

  Family, Years, Insane

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• 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.

  Megan Hart

  Smart, Lucky, Rest Of Your Life

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• I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

  Gloria Estefan

  Girl, Baby, Maturity

  "Live In Miami: The Evolution Tour". Documentary, Music, 1996.

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

  Alice Cooper

  Security Guards, Seventeen, Asks

  "Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper". 1974.

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• 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.

  Ruth Rendell

  Women, Taken, Two

  Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)”, p.25, Random House

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Keys, Car

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• I want a serious girlfriend. Somebody I can love, that's gonna love me back. Is that psycho?

  Michael Schoeffling

  Girlfriend, Want, Serious

  "Fictional character: Jake". "Sixteen Candles", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.

  Molly Ringwald

  Believe, Geek, Panties

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• 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.

  Esther Forbes

  War, Men, Boys

  Esther Forbes (1997). “Johnny Tremain: and related readings”

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• I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.

  Dakota Johnson

  Character, People, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Klaus Kinski

  Coward, Want, Cry

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.

  Luther Dixon

  Birthday, Eye, Light

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• At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

  Jules Feiffer

  Wise, Confused, Stupid

  "Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Second Edition". Book edited by William H. McNeill, Jerry Bentley and David Christian, April 30, 2010.

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Depression, Suffering, Knows

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• 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.

  Matthew Kelly

  Past, Rest Of Your Life, Life Is

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.19, BookBaby

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

  Truman Capote

  Years, Lovely, Honor

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.9, Vintage

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• 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.

  Kid Rock

  Mom, Dad, Class

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Death, Sleep, Relief

  'Maximes et Pensèes' (1796) ch. 2

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