Fourth Quotes - Page 11

• Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.

  Paul Engle

  War, Kids, July

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• In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it.

  Will Ferrell

  Girl, Doors, Hands

  "Will Ferrell says growing up in Irvine made him funny". Interview by Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. July 23, 2008.

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• If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Reality, Blessing

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• In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

  LeBron James

  School, Grades, Fourth Grade

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Worry, Personality

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• We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Birthday, Mother, Numbers

  "Beyoncé unveils new album title: 4" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

  Jose Saramago

  Mistake, School, Writing

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• I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

  Adam Savage

  Children, Church, Generations

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• My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Father, Thieves

  "Are we ever going to make this picture?". Interview with Alex Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2003.

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• Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.

  Winsor McCay

  Father, Fighting, Names

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• I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.

  Dr. Seuss

  Summer, Ideas, Two

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• Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

  Charles Manning Child

  Science, Discovery, Mind

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• One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Horse, Eugenics, Humanity

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• I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Winning, Games, Chess Game

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• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Sheep, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.439, Modern Library

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• If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Fall, Men, Jumping

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• The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

  Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

  Country, Earth, Firsts

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• If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Strong, Cheer

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• I have three lives: actress, model, producer. Sometimes I'm aware that there's a fourth life, which is somewhat neglected, which is living a bit.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Three, Actresses, Sometimes

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• I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

  Bam Margera

  Airplane, Games, Play

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• When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

  Didi Conn

  Teacher, Fun, Book

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• This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

  Kenneth Anger

  July, Navy, United States

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• I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. As a fourth-degree black-belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and that's something that we should start to implement for a lot of women.

  Nia Sanchez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Questions About Where Miss U.S.A. Really Lives". ABC news, abcnews.go.com. June 14, 2014.

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• The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Future, Party

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