Sixteen Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Ideas, Two

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Should Have, Tragedy

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from God, so long are you young.

  Samuel Ullman

  Funny, Birthday, Cheer

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

  Carl Sandburg

  Baseball, Song, Player

  Carl Sandburg, “Hits And Runs”

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

  Bob Carlisle

  Daughter, Sweet, Littles

  Song: Butterfly Kisses After Bedtime Prayer

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• 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?

  Andy Rooney

  Cheating, Coffee, Together

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• Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Kids, Gymnastics

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• Ever since Blessed Alan de la Roche re-established this devotion the voice of the people, which is the voice of God, called it the Rosary. The word Rosary means "Crown of Roses" that is to say that every time people say the Rosary devoutly they place a crown of one hundred and fifty-three red roses and sixteen white roses upon the heads of Jesus and Mary. Being heavenly flowers these roses will never fade or lose their exquisite beauty.

  Louis de Montfort

  Jesus, Flower, Blessed

  St. Louis de Montfort (1983). “The Secret of the Rosary”, p.27, TAN Books

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

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Christ, Salvation

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.266, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• 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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• While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.

  Hal Porter

  Love, Children, Fall

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

  Clay Aiken

  Idols, Tvs, Week

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• There were people I knew that came to college and had never drank before, and never partied, and maybe got a little bit too carried away with it when they did finally get out of the house... I feel like I got that stuff out of my system when I was sixteen and knew to balance things - but at the same time - it's not like I was out getting my medical degree. Playing in a band, you can still have plenty of fun!

  Chris Baio

  Fun, College, People

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• I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Falling In Love, Looks, Fiction

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.9, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits. I left home when I was sixteen and lived in places where it was very easy for me to have fallen the other way. I could have been on the large convoy because I was a woman and I was alone. In India, that's not a joke. I could have ended up very, very badly. I'm lucky that I didn't.

  Arundhati Roy

  Home, Artist, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Girl, Knowing, Ignorant

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.34, Delphi Classics

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• Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?

  Scott Simon

  Girl, Children, Boys

  "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.

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• Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

  Haruki Murakami

  School, Years, Brain

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

  Solomon Burke

  Vegas, Hospitality, Sand

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• 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.

  Michael Cera

  People, Support, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis.

  Amy Schumer

  Song, Syphilis, Seventeen

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.

  David Lodge

  Educational, Cutting, Names

  'Changing Places' (1975) ch. 1

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• A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

  Nora Ephron

  Summer, Writing, Kids

  "Nora on Hollywood: In Her Own Words", www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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