“I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.” MenLittlesBoysYouthConcernFatsSixteen Book:The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2 Source: The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2
“Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.” MenLongLeftBehindsBoysYouthSweetThirtyOld ManLeft BehindScarceSixteenGlee Author:Arthur Hugh Clough
“I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.” YearsGirlLevelsBoysBabyMonthsTwentiesMaturitySixteenBaby GirlSixteen Year OldsMaturity Level Author:Gloria Estefan
“I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.” PeopleTwoKidsRememberMotherGirlNamesBoysBonesIndianBowsSixteenWalkersCatchyCherokeeAuntieCherokee Indian Author:T-Bone Walker
“The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen when I left home and gained weight for the first time and was told by a slightly older boy, out of the blue, that I was "too plump." The shock of that lasted a good long time.” FirstsLongHomeLeftCausesBoysTerribleLong TimeFirst TimeWeightPressureBlueGuiltShockSixteenGood Long Author:Kate Christensen