quotes about Sixteen Year Olds

“Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.”

“Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers”

“And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.”

“I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.”

“In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances.”

“Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.”

“Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from May 17, 2012

“To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.”

“For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,”

Source : Banjo Paterson (2010). “Banjo Paterson Complete Poems”, p.33, HarperCollins Australia

“More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.”