Sweet 16 Birthday Quotes

Enjoy this collection of Sweet 16 Birthday Quotes for that special teenager on their birthday. Laugh, be inspired, and celebrate!

Sweet 16 Birthday Quotes Index

Being 16
Celebrate
Friends
Funny
Inspirational
Quotes by Famous People
Spiritual

Being 16

"Sixteen candles make a lovely light
But not as bright as your eyes tonight."
~ Luther Dixon

"The best substitute for experience is being sixteen."
~ Raymond Duncan

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath."
~ Arnold H. Glasow

"From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash."
~ Sophie Tucker

"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."
~ Oscar Wilde

"You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime."
~ John P. Grier

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Celebrate

"Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake."
~ Unknown

"A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip."
~ Unknown

"Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind."
~ Alexander Pope

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Friends

"Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend me to the world;
yours gave to me a friend."
~ Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. IX, ep. 53)

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Funny

"Youth is a disease from which we all recover."
~ Dorothy Fulheim

"Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?"
~ Bobby Kelton

"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."
~ Oscar Wilde

"You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime."
~ John P. Grier

"Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life."
~ Robert Southey

"The secret to eternal youth is arrested development".
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."
~ Bishop Richard Cumberland

'The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet."
~ Robert Orben

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Inspirational

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
~ John Mason

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
~ Jean Paul Richter

"May you live all the days of your life."
~ Jonathan Swift

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come."
~ Lucy Larcom

"Don't just count your years, make your years count."
~ Ernest Meyers

"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again."
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."
~ Sammy Hagar

"Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated."
~ Unknown

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Quotes by Famous People

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind."
~ Alexander Pope

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."
~ Euripides

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."
~ Fred Astaire

"Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing."
~ Jerry Seinfeld

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Spiritual

"Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life."
~ Billy Mills

"There is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven."
~ Bible Ecclesiastes 3:1

"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again."
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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