#sixteen

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

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers. ↗

— John Britton

#after #associate #became #birth #early

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

#back #damned #eighty #entire #ever

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

— Truman Capote

#eleven #honors #i #lovely #sixteen

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

— Orson Scott Card

#going #hour #hours #how #last

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

— Ryan White

#am #i #i am #name #old

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. ↗

— Mark McGwire

#hit #me #milestone #more #only

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

— John Deacon

#first #machines #our #recorded #sixteen

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

#seventeen #sixteen #sweet #sweet-sixteen #teens

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