Sixteen Quotes

People don't understand rural America. 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.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

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

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

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.

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

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

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.