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

  Molly Ringwald

  Believe, Geek, Panties

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

  Luther Dixon

  Birthday, Eye, Light

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

  Cameron Diaz

  Party, Heavy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

  William Ralph Inge

  Real, Thinking, Two

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• 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

  William Saroyan

  Book, Eight, Half

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• being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions

  Anne Sexton

  Pants, Died

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• 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.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Eye, Wind, Skins

  "Winter's Bone". Book by Daniel Woodrell, 2006.

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• 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.

  Cara Lockwood

  Mom, Two, Looks

  Cara Lockwood (2006). “Wuthering High: A Bard Academy Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.'

  Gretchen Rubin

  Thinking, Effort, Identity

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition.

  Paul Blanshard

  Christian, Religious, Educational

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