Sixteen Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  Athenaeus

  Wine, Glasses, Years

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• When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to be adults, they are just children. And like all children, they need their mother, and they need their father. All children need their mother and their father. All children are entitled to their mother and their father.

  Frank Abagnale

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Real, College

  "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.

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• I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

  Hunter Parrish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before.

  Leigh Newman

  Baby, Brother, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.

  Ronee Blakley

  Teacher, College, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.

  Kate Christensen

  Struggle, Cutting, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Writing, Outkast, Fourteen

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• I was scouted when I was like sixteen and I hated it. I wasn’t ready to work. When I turned 19, I decided to move to Paris to pursue modeling for myself there. It was kind of a way to get out of the house and discover something for myself, in a way.

  Dree Hemingway

  Moving, Paris, House

  "Futures: Sean Baker’s ‘Starlet’ Dree Hemingway Opens Up About Life as Model and Acting Opposite an 87-Year-Old Newcomer". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 8, 2012.

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• I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me.

  Grace Paley

  Brother, Years, Luck

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• I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.

  Gus Van Sant

  School, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, School, Prose And Poetry

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• I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.

  T-Bone Walker

  Girl, Mother, Kids

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• Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.

  Albert Camus

  Girl, Beach, Morning

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• Being a parent is a life sentence. You see, that's why normal people should not have children because if you raise a kid with only love and support, I guarantee that kid will be in rehab by the time he is 16. Why? Because you never introduced him to Mr. Back-of-Your-Hand. You know why I only broke into a liquor store once? 'Cause my father introduced me to Mr. Back-of-His-Hand and its wiley sidekick, Mr. Foot-in-My-Ass.

  Christopher Titus

  Children, Father, Kids

  "Titus / The Visit". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Airplane, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Statement on first use of atomic bomb in combat, 6 Aug. 1945

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

  Kathleen Winsor

  Change, Past, Years

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.19, Chicago Review Press

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• When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it but thought: this is in a major museum, it must be important, what is going on here? I stayed until the museum closed. His Screen Test films are some of my favorite works made this century, but you need to give them back the time they took to be made.

  Uta Barth

  Art, Museums, Giving

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• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

  Albert Einstein

  Daughter, Teacher, Son

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• 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.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Mean, Grew Up, Stills

  "Song: 'Deeper'". 2014.

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

  Helena Rubinstein

  Artist, Makeup, Remember

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• 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.

  George R. R. Martin

  Father, Son, Twenties

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.581, Bantam

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• 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

  Alyson Noel

  Winter, Fire, Light

  Alyson Noel (2013). “Mystic”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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• I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Strong, Feet

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• Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Friends, Giving Up

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