Fifth Quotes - Page 5

• I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

  Leonard Susskind

  New York, Father, Smart

  "Can Physics Experiments Catch Up?". Interview with Anil Ananthaswamy, www.slate.com. March 2, 2013.

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• The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.

  Lu Tong

  Wall, Pain, Loneliness

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• Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Firsts, Ability

  "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects". Book by J. G. Holland, October 3, 2009.

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• The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of the fifth century A.D., but to the prehistoric Atlantic Nordic human wave. The Kabyle huntsmen, for example, are to no small degree still wholly Nordic (thus the blond Berbers in the region of Constantine form 10 % of the population; at Djebel Sheshor they are even more numerous).

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Eye, Light, Blue

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 6, 2004.

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• I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Thinking, Sticks, Muttering

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• Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

  Gracie Allen

  Bonus, Ifs

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

  Leonard Cohen

  Kings, Fall, Secret

  Song: Hallelujah

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• In my case, that number is 45. And given that I was born on December 13, 1945 my conception, gestation, and birth all occurred within that year that number has been with me, literally, for all my life, to date. The number 45 keeps on popping up as I go about the business of getting elected you guessed it as the forty-fifth president of the United States of America.

  Herman Cain

  Years, Numbers, America

  Herman Cain (2011). “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.

  Will Cuppy

  Thinking, Islands, People

  "Living from Can to Mouth". Comic interview with Jo Ranson for Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, No. 5, November 24, 1929.

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• There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Humble, Light

  Leonardo da Vinci (2017). “Thoughts on art and life”, p.18, Youcanprint

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• I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Brother, Thinking, Years

  "The Birthday Party" by James B. Stewart, www.newyorker.com. February 11, 2008.

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• We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

  Horace Walpole

  Fear, Pain, Loneliness

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• If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Girl, Song, Fall

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• I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

  Anthony Trollope

  New York, Thinking, Fifth Avenue

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “North America”, p.208, Applewood Books

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• My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Winter, Snow, Storm

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Teacher, Home, School

  "Despicable me". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.

  Brian J. White

  Reading, Book, Past

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• What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.

  Chris Witty

  Opportunity, Flags, World

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• According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to
  live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came
  in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much.
  Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.

  David Letterman

  Funny, New York, Humor

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• It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Teacher, Writing, Ideas

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• I'm a Christian first. I'm a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it's third, fourth, or fifth down the line.

  Steve Alford

  Basketball, Christian, Family Guy

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• Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Queens, Noble, Lasts

  Ford Madox Ford (2011). “The Fifth Queen”, p.7, Vintage

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• The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Black, Degrees

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• The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

  Robert Fagles

  Hero, Ignorance, Men

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