#sixteen

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#back #because #believe #give #got

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#back #because #believe #give #got

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

— Mary A. Ward

#concerned #far #intellectual #nine #practically

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. ↗

— David Hockney

#art #art school #i #old #school

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

#eighteen #got #i #just #kids

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

#every #hours #living #provides #relief

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. ↗

— Raymond Duncan

#best #experience #sixteen #substitute

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

#closet #gay #had #i #knew

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

#become #day #devotes #hard #himself

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

— Samuel Richardson

#attractions #good-natured #hopes #humor #kept