Eleven Quotes - Page 9

• It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Morning, Sunday

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.219, Beacon Press

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• I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Hundred, Kindles

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Feb 02, 2012

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• It was eleven more than neccessary.

  Jacques Anquetil

  Cycling

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• I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

  Warren Buffett

  Age, Firsts, Investment

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• It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

  Jonathan Swift

  Eggs, Gulliver's Travels, Break

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Lilliput" ch. 4 (1726)

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• I've been deeply concerned that to date no individuals have been convicted for the brutal killing of three United States citizens, the Bytyqi brothers: Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet.... It's a long time ago, we want to move on, but eleven years after the discovery of their bodies no one has been held accountable for their killing and the chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

  Eliot Engel

  Brother, Moving, Discovery

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• Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

  Garry Robbins

  Discovery, Years, Body

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• Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

  William Whipple

  Business, Important, Three

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• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Tony Visconti

  Son, Guitar, Years

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Warfare

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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• Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Girl, Mother, Home

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

  Paul Weller

  Kids, White, Ties

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• My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

  Rob Zombie

  Jobs, New York, Thinking

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• In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

  Eddie Gibbs

  Years, Church, Doe

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• Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Age

  "The Changeling".

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• On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Night, Two, New Orleans

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• One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

  Ray Bradbury

  Halloween, Doors, Hands

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.

  Sheri Holman

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid's wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta - you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Kids, Gangsta, Surveillance Cameras

  "Geraldo: Martin killed due to 'hoodie'" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. March 23, 2012.

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• When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

  Duffy

  Memories, Real, People

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• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  Carl Barks

  Kids, Boys, Years

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• Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Morning, School

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.219, Beacon Press

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• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.

  Walter Murch

  Reflection, Years, Wind

  Michael Ondaatje, Walter Murch (2002). “The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film”, p.9, A&C Black

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• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old. [...] At that age, you know enough of the world to have opinions about things, but you're not old enough yet to be overly influenced by the crowd or by what other people are doing or what you think you 'should' be doing. If what you do later on ties into that reservoir in some way, then you are nurturing some essential part of yourself.

  Walter Murch

  Reflection, Thinking, Years

  "The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film". Book by Michael Ondaatje, December 3, 2012.

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