Sixteenth Birthday

Famous quotes containing the words sixteenth and/or birthday:

“April is in my mistress’ face,
And July in her eyes hath place,
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.”
—Unknown. Subject #4: July Subject #5: September Subject #6: December. All Seasons in One. . .

Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)

“Washington’s birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)