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Sixteen Quotes - Page 2

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

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.15, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.380

Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.

Rachel Caine (2009). “The Dead Girls' Dance”, p.205, Allison & Busby

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

"Margaret Atwood: Writing Philosophy". Margaret Atwood's Waterstone's poetry lecture at Hay On Wye in Wales, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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 : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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

Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.1116, Delacorte Press

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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 (2014). “My First Love and Other Disasters: My First Love and Other Disasters; Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo; My Mother Was Never a Kid”, p.653, Simon and Schuster