Fourth Quotes

• When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Keys, Geography, Grades

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• You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

  Peyton Manning

  Mean, Thinking, Nfl

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• There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Divorce, Cynical

  News Summaries, December 31, 1969.

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• The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Gallery, Estates, Realms

  "On Hallam's Constitutional History" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1828.

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• I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

  Loretta Lynn

  Funny, Witty, Baby

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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

  Michael Landon

  Successful, Three, Want

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• In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

  Bode Miller

  Sports, Mistake, Winning

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• At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

  Allen Johnson

  July, Names, Philadelphia

  Allen Johnson, Edward Samuel Corwin (1926). “The age of Jefferson and Marshall: Part 1: Jefferson and his colleagues, by Allen Johnson. Part 2: John Marshall and the Constitution, by Edward S. Crowin”

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• Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live

  Geraldo Rivera

  Night, Literature, Hitting

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• Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

  William Lilly

  Talking, Years, Age

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.17

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• There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

  James Henry Breasted

  Egypt, Land, Civilization

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• On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Success, Effort, Degrees

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• I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Daughter, Mother, Giving

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.63, Mondial

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• I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Games, Boards

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• Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

  Louis Leakey

  Travel, Difficult, Expeditions

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• The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

  Walter Raleigh

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.568

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• No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

  Larry Hagman

  Wall, Writing, Curves

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• We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

  Cobi Jones

  Determination, Team, Thinking

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• If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Hate, Reading, School

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• For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Team, Important

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• I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Division

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

  James Marsters

  Art, House, Myopic

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• Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Eye, Science, Thinking

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