Four Years Quotes - Page 29

• It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long to learn how to spell it.

  Rocky Bridges

  Years, Long, Four

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• Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.

  Hamid Karzai

  Strong, Years, Feet

  "Afghan leader to U.S.: 'Stay with us'" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2003.

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• I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

  Ronald Reagan

  Time, College, Years

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• This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his spelling, for to me they are a part of the man. He is as honest as the day is long. He is utterly simple-minded and straightforward, and his spelling and his punctuation are as simple and honest as he is himself. He makes no apology for them, and no apology is needed.

  Mark Twain

  Morning, Communication, Apology

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• His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.

  Diophantus

  Life, Children, Father

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• I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

  Thom Gunn

  Years, Four, Havens

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• Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Kings, Mirrors, Years

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.158, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later.

  Sebastian Haffner

  Children, Real, Home

  Sebastian Haffner (2012). “Defying Hitler: A Memoir”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

  Julie Taymor

  Mean, Self, Years

  "Bill Moyers Interviews Julie Taymor". "NOW on PBS" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2002.

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• It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.

  Nathan Adrian

  Motivational, Wall, Hands

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• They've got a great team, I really like them. They're a young team, and they've done what the Twins did in that division a few years ago. This is what happens when you get a core group of guys and let them play with each other for three, four years. You get a special bunch. They're having fun you can see it.

  Eddie Guardado

  Fun, Team, Years

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• I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

  Dana Carvey

  Years, Age, Levels

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• When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dad, Kids, Wrestling

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• Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

  Mem Fox

  Children, Heart, Eight

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• I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

  Beck

  Years, Holocaust, Bells

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• I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet refuses to be destroyed. The shape only improved with weathering. I bought several for my storefront in NYC, but it felt like a fish out of water in the city. It cries out for the California coastline and the arid deserts of Africa.

  Andy Spade

  Ocean, Years, Cities

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• I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date hereof, every sectarian and religious denomination in the United States shall be broken down, and every Christian shall be gathered unto the Mormonites, and the rest of the human race shall perish. If these things do not take place, I will hereby consent to have my hand separated from my body.

  Martin Harris

  Christian, Religious, Race

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• My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

  C. Everett Koop

  Jobs, Children, Philadelphia

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• It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?

  Bill Hicks

  Life Changing, Drinking, Night

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• My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I'm single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I have four years of college.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dog, College, Eight

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• Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Years, Four

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• I've defended my title for eight years, let's see if Ricky (Hatton) is still champion in four years.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Eight, Years

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• Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Inspiration, Years, Two

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• Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Education, Years, Giving

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• Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Average, Years, Rooms

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