Sixteen Quotes

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: / For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. - Bible

A pound is sixteen ounces wherever you go. - Turkish Proverb

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. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[The Jackson's] were very happy, we all were. Edgar said the last sixteenth he just folded up on him and he didn't even hit him with the stick. - Michael Matz

[On April 12, 1999, missiles blasted apart a passenger train in southern Serbia, killing at least 10 people and wounding sixteen. NATO acknowledged it had targeted a rail bridge considered an important military supply line. But there was a train on the bridge at the time of the attack.] We certainly don't want to do collateral damage, ... The mission was to take out the bridge. He realized when it had happened that he had not hit the bridge, that what he hit was the train. - Wesley Clark

[At the convention itself, Jackie was moved by the famous film clip of a starry-eyed, sixteen-year-old Bill Clinton shaking hands with John F. Kennedy in the Rose Garden Jackie had created.] I think, ... that established an emotional link for her. - Ted Kennedy

[A logo] should look just as good in 15-foot letters on top of company headquarters as it does one sixteenth of an inch tall on company stationery. - Steven Gilliatt