#quarter

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #quarter




I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.


Laura Hillenbrand


#always #book #bought #called #come

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.


Hjalmar Branting


#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.


Newt Gingrich


#been #century #destroys #families #family

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.


Elisabeth Schwarzkopf


#go #had #harps #i #indiana

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.


Bram Fischer


#back #cast #century #communist #communist party

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.


William Lloyd Garrison


#give #humane #i #lost #men

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.


Mary Landrieu


#budget #clean #come #costs #day

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.


Carolus Linnaeus


#distinguish #first #glance #globe #loss

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.


Lindsay Lohan


#achieved #anthony #anthony hopkins #career #did

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.


Steve Mariucci


#defense #great #quarterbacks #well #young