Sixteen famous quotes

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Wings #Sixteen #Youth

The fire at Lipara, Xenophanes says, ceased once for sixteen years, and came back in the seventeenth. And he says that the lavastream from Aetna is neither of the nature of fire, nor is it continuous, but it appears at intervals of many years.
-- Aristotle

#Fire #Years #Sixteen

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
-- Beau Garrett

#Paris #Sixteen #Months

If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they're male, shoot 'em. Kill every male you see.
-- Chris Kyle

#Males #Ems #Sixteen

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

#Idols #Sixteen #Tvs

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Book #Sixteen #Freethinker

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.
-- David Levithan

#Sixteen #Hurdle

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.
-- Francine Pascal

#Sweet #Sixteen #Good Things

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 #Sixteen #Grew

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 #Sixteen

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

#Artist #Makeup #Sixteen

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.
-- Hunter Parrish

#Sixteen

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 #Tragedy #Sixteen

I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous
-- J.R. Ward

#Sixteen #Language #Vishous

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
-- Jacqueline Woodson

#Fifteen #Sixteen

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.
-- Jimmy Dean

#Yesterday #Texas #Sixteen

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.
-- Jonathan Stroud

#Two #Eight #Sixteen

My mom said I wasn't allowed to date until I was sixteen, but I broke that rule. She found out and said, 'I'm disappointed in you.'
-- Justin Bieber

#Mom #Sixteen #Broke

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.
-- Klaus Kinski

#Coward #Want #Sixteen

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#School #Rose #Sixteen

But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.
-- Lauren Kate

#Years #Sixteen #Sixteen Year Olds

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Simple #Sixteen #Reason

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 #Sixteen #Christ

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.
-- Megan Hart

#Smart #Sixteen #Lucky

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the ***** of New Orleans.
-- Richard Brautigan

#New Orleans #Firsts #Sixteen

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
-- Solomon Burke

#Las Vegas #Sixteen #Sand

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history
-- Susan Abulhawa

#Years #Bullets #Sixteen

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.
-- Tahir Shah

#Travel #Team #Sixteen

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Work #Sixteen #Another Day

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Eight #Years #Sixteen

Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.
-- Elena Avila

#Heart #Journey #Sixteen