Fourth Quotes - Page 9

• Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

  Mark Twain

  4th Of July, Eight, Gone

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). “The travels of Mark Twain”

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• The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

  Mark Twain

  4th Of July, Loss, Years

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.263, Xist Publishing

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• If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.

  Arlene Croce

  Dance, Years, Two

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• We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].

  Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Mean, Science, Evil

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• My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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• If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?

  George Carlin

  Jesus, Stupid, Thinking

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• Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Law, Giving

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• I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration and amnesty] to its stool which was wishful thinking. And that pattern of a four-legged stool was copied in the failed attempts to enact a second and bigger general amnesty for illegal aliens in 2006, 2007, and in the current year 2013.

  Jan C. Ting

  Thinking, Years, Law

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• The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

  Frederick Douglass

  Healing, July, Justice

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Stars, Memorable, July

  Henry McNeal Turner (1971). “Respect Black: the writings and speeches of Henry McNeal Turner”

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• I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win.

  Mark Messier

  Team, Hockey, Winning

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• We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.

  Mao Zedong

  Jobs, Army, Fighting

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.56, Lulu.com

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• I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

  Nick Offerman

  Growing Up, Grades, Fourth Grade

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.7, Penguin

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• 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Running, Morning

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me.

  Drake

  Humble, Ems, Felons

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• The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

  Margot Asquith

  Confused, Taken, Greatness

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Eight, Feet

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• He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Faults, Quarters

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• It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.

  Henri Poincare

  Mean, Science, Perfect

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.236, Modern Library

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• I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world.  They know phony and they know real.'

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Queens, Real, Believe

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• But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.

  Channing Tatum

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.

  George Lucas

  Discipline, Identity, Able

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• St. Patrick's Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It's not the biggest. It's right behind New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party.

  David Letterman

  New Year, Party, Drinking

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• I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Men, Feet

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.368, Best Books on

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• Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

  Ronald Reagan

  July, America, Opponents

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