Fifth Quotes

• Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

  Malcolm Arnold

  Symphony, Special, Experts

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• It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

  Pete Hamill

  Love, Peace, War

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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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• So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

  Barack Obama

  Anniversary, Jobs, Fighting

  "New Orleans Residents Still Struggling To Get Back Home". Remarks from the Crescent City, www.npr.org. August 31, 2010.

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• The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

  Spencer Bachus

  War, Years, America

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• I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Fifty

  "E=MO²". Comedy Album, 1985.

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• Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

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• A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Acceptance, Kissing

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.27, Litres

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• My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

  Kurt Russell

  Teamwork, Stars, Years

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• I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

  John Brown

  Balls, Faces, Shots

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• My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

  Ajay Naidu

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

  Enid Bagnold

  God, Dog, Animal

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• Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Ukulele, Kind

  Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 12, 2006.

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• Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

  Peter Lynch

  Math, Fifth Grade, Made

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• I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Age, I Can, Can Do

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• The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Liberty, Empires, Splendid

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.5

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• When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Tattoo, New York, Stars

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• U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.

  Noam Chomsky

  Goal, Degrees, Might

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.1, Pluto Press

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• Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Science

  The Sign of the Four ch. 1 (1890)

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• In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

  J. C. Watts

  Children, Oklahoma, Imagination

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• Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

  George Berkeley

  Drama, Past, Four

  "On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America" st. 6 (1752)

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• I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Graduation, Jealousy

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• One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

  Robert Kennedy

  Time, People, Political

  Speech at University of Pennsylvania, 6 May 1964, in Philadelphia Inquirer 7 May 1964

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• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Symphony, Sublime

  Howards End (1910) ch. 5

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• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

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