Sixteen Quotes

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

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

Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks.

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

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

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

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.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

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

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

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.

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

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.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

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.

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

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

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

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

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

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

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.

I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.

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.