Sixteen Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Cameron Diaz

  Country, Travel, Believe

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

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Years, Intellectual, Training

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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

  Marie Stopes

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

  Cameron Diaz

  Party, Heavy

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• Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Way

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

  Billie Holiday

  Funny, Marriage, Hilarious

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.13, Broadway Books

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• One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Saint, Hours

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 2, 1951.

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• 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.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• 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?

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Success, Mean

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• The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.

  Joseph P. Allen

  Sunset, Eight, Blue

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• ....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.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Order, Oysters

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• I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I'd moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I'd just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Brother, Jobs, Should Have

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Age, Faults, Poet

  "Margaret Atwood: Writing Philosophy". Margaret Atwood's Waterstone's poetry lecture at Hay On Wye in Wales, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

  Jonathan Ames

  Tennis, Complicated, Problem

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• I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

  Errol Morris

  Powerful, Real, One Day

  Interview with Nick Poppy, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.

  Sylvia Earle

  Writing, Long, People

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

  Lucy Powell

  Army, Years, Pay

  "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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• 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.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Golf, Years

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beautiful, Age, Looks

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• A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Eight, Years, Two

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• It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, People, Waiting

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• A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Eight, Two, Twenties

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

  Lucille Clifton

  Letting Go, Running, New Year

  Lucille Clifton (1974). “An ordinary woman”

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• 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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Life, Sight, Years

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.84, Penguin

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• 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.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Women, Twenties

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