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“Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.”

Knows Father Grows Son Arms Please Twenties Fifty Tall Sixteen

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.”

Kids Rocks Hero Six Caught Remembered Thrown Bully Sixteen Heartbreaker

Author:C.C. Hunter

“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.”

Two Ideas Twenties Blue Finished No Idea Grades Eighteen Sixteen Gansey Twenty Two

Book:The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

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

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

Death Literature Hours Sleep Relief Sickness Remedy Sixteen

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“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.”

Inspirational Years Firsts Children Kids Turns Next Five Treats Five Years Darling Sixteen Your Best Friend Happy Children Scolding Scolded

Author:Chanakya

“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'.”

Should Firsts Has Beens Ends Audience Should Have Tragedy Intention Dance Manifestation Cried Joyous Should Have Been Comprehension Sixteen Maidens Without Music

Book:My life

Source: My life

“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.”

“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.”

Long Remember Song Games Voice Darkness Player Rocks Calling Red Baseball Balls Strikes Shoulders Dust Smoke Islands Throat Yellow Umpires Sixteen Grappling Long Island Ball Players

Author:Carl Sandburg

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

Littles Today Sweet Daughter Sixteen Like Her Momma

Author:Bob Carlisle

“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?”

Seems Together Half Coffee Pounds Cheating Sixteen Thirteen

Author:Andy Rooney

“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.”

Feels Years I Can Shows Kids Sports Can Do Emotion Grace Shapes Elements Competition Gymnastics Sixteen I Can Do It Old You Sixteen Year Olds

Author:Olga Korbut

“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.”

Ifs Matter Guy Girl Boys Geek Sixteen

Author:Tommy Chong

“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.”

Source: The Secret of the Rosary

“If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; the last sixteen years; or the last fifty years of life, doesn't mean anything... All that matters is: What are you going to do, right now?”

Ifs Want Years Mean Doe Matter Moments Motivational Today Lasts Past Remember Success Months Right Now Succeed Equal Six Positivity Yesterday Phrases Fifty Six Months Sixteen Years Of Life

Author:Tony Robbins

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

Inspirational Christ Written Century Salvation Theme Forty Sixteen

Book:Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal

Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal

“At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?”

Self Age Break Five Wise Stupid Twenties Maturity Confused Forty Adolescence Insecure Sixteen Twenty Five Assertive Self Confident Indecisive I Was Stupid

Author:Jules Feiffer

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.”

Knows Suffering Depression Sixteen

Book:Emile: selections

Source: Emile: selections

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

Way Years Honor Lovely My Way Eleven Sixteen

Book:The Grass Harp

Source: The Grass Harp

“Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.”

Light Eye Lovely Birthday Tonight Candle Sixteen Wise Birthday

Author:Luther Dixon

“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.”

Want Cry Coward Not Afraid Sixteen

Book:Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski

Source: Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski

“Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.”

Knows Want Doe Reason Waiting Church Numbers Happened Air Direct Window Musical Candle Fists Sixteen Chivalry Nelson Jake Really Awesome

Author:Emma Stone

“At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.”

People Littles Gone Mad Legs Little Things Gorgeous Skinny Sixteen Eyelashes

Author:Twiggy

“I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.”

Believe I Can Geek Sixteen Panties

Author:Molly Ringwald

“The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.”

Way Young Spirit Born Destiny Figures Creation Horror Breaths Profound Ruins Mortals Eras Internals Agony Historic Departure Detached Sixteen Embodiment Blanche

Author:Gertrud von Le Fort

“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.”

Way I Can Wanted Remember Fall Talent Tears Weak Playwright Sixteen Seventeen Falling Asleep

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend. This wise, compassionate, and honest book is a blueprint for living a happy, fulfilling life. Its lessons are timeless – and timely.”

“A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe”

Men Love Home Mother Girl Water Hours Wife Baby Picks Twenties Woods Silly Pounds Permit Gloves Sixteen Bouquets After Hours Silly Girl

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

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

Years Intellectual Training Concerned Seven Nine Sixteen Nine Years

Book:Marcella

Source: Marcella

“I should have died when I was sixteen, when I planned to commit suicide. And I was an atheist until then. I was an atheist, and what the heck, if life sucks what do you have to live for? If you're an atheist, it's just about living, you know? So at the time, I didn't want to wake up anymore and then seriously, God chased me down and proved that he was real and that he loved me.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Real Christian Should Have Wake Up Died Down And Suicide Atheist Christian Inspirational Commit Sixteen Life Sucks

Author:Lacey Mosley

“On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.”

Years Littles Said Age Wine Glasses Occasions Culinary Sixteen Old Wine Wine And Age Sixteen Year Olds

Author:Athenaeus

“I want a serious girlfriend. Somebody I can love, that's gonna love me back. Is that psycho?”

Want I Can Serious Girlfriend Sixteen Psycho

Author:Michael Schoeffling

“You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you.”

Ifs Thinking Children Enough Problem Kids Wanted Hate Given Pay Parenting Cheat Teenage Hate You Hypocrite Up To You Sixteen Seventeen

Author:John Lennon

“When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again--which is a loss. But to shield yourself--as I didn't do--seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in.”

Thinking Knows World Should Heart Seems Lost Parent Loss Greater Becoming Adults Errors Shields Sixteen Becoming An Adult

Book:Wildlife

Source: Wildlife

“The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.”

Source: Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

“I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But it was a route worth bolting for, and after a time I began to take an almost perverse joy in it, or at least in doing a good job.”

Way Jobs Joy Next Unique Climbing Blank Routes Next Day Good Job Sixteen Bolts Unique Experiences

Author:Royal Robbins

“To be the best and stay there sweat is necessary. I'm older. Of course I'm older. That's the beauty of it. Sixteen years plus different level of wisdom. Different level of understanding. Different level of punishment. i want to live loooong after my records have fallen, long after my rings have tarnished. Whatever you got to do to make sure you chase your legacy. Every second of your life. How will you be remembered? How will you be remembered? Why wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement ever? Leave your mark to endure forever.”

“I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.”

Knows World Mean Art Creativity Photography Bridges Obsessed Fifteen Crossings Sixteen Gadgets New Places

Author:Adam Fuss

“Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.”

Years America Levels Emotional Grades Mentality Sixteen

Author:Bill Hicks

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

Ifs Wells May Girl Knowing Ignorant Sixteen Plainness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

“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?”

“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.”

Knows Wells Made Lifetime Yesterday Texas More Money Eighty Sixteen Irrigation

Author:Jimmy Dean

“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.”

Source: Speedboat

“The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.”

Different Lasts Justice Space Sun Color Band Red Blue Come Up Eight Brilliant Sunset Seconds Sunrise Thunder Comes And Goes Sixteen Star Gazing Sunrise And Sunset

Author:Joseph P. Allen

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

Week Sand Hotel Hospitality Vegas Las Vegas Sixteen Mgm

Author:Solomon Burke

“We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There's microwaved watermelons. There's the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There's vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes.”

World Needs Years Guy Girl Sex Levels Rooms Serious Internet Meetings Notes Handle Plenty Chairs Pretending Site Vacuums Fbi Lawns Sixteen Cleaners Hounds Sexiest Sixteen Year Olds Mowers

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.”

Party Heavy Sixteen

Author:Cameron Diaz