Definition of Sixteen

Sixteen

Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.

The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.

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Sixteen Quotations

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.
Chanakya

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Jean-Paul Sartre

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
Babe Ruth

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
Chris Rock

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

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.
Kid Rock

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Billie Holiday

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
Orson Scott Card

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
Ryan White

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

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.
Tommy Chong

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
John Deacon

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

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

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
Cameron Diaz

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
Cameron Diaz

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

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
Raymond Duncan

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
Boy George

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.
Warren Cuccurullo

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
Gavin Rossdale

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.
Olga Korbut

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.
Moira Kelly

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

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.
Sheryl Sandberg

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
Olga Korbut

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Mary A. Ward

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

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Sixteen Translations

sixteen in Afrikaans is sestien
sixteen in Danish is sejsten
sixteen in Dutch is zestien
sixteen in Finnish is kuusitoista
sixteen in French is seize
sixteen in German is sechzehn, sechszehn
sixteen in Hungarian is tizenhat
sixteen in Italian is sedici
sixteen in Norwegian is seksten
sixteen in Portuguese is dazasseis, dezesseis
sixteen in Swedish is sexton

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