Twelve Quotes - Page 16

• In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Encouragement, Distance, Heart

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

  Don Marquis

  Death, Children, Maturity

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• There is one thing which we should have exceedingly clear in our minds. Neither the President of the Church, nor the First Presidency, nor the united voice of the First Presidency and the Twelve will ever condone the use of ReddiWhip on pie.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Thanksgiving, Should Have, Voice

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• My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.

  Scott Thompson

  Gun, Giving, Parent

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• Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

  Francis Bacon

  Law, Judging, People

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• My son is 12 now, and is really getting into girls. A lot. But the thing about twelve year old boys is that they don't possess what I like to call that ... discretionary gene yet. We were walking home from the ballfield the other day and there was a woman walking towards us who was ... gifted. I saw them, and I saw him see them. But she was too close for me to go, "Dude, shut up." She hadn't walked two feet behind us and he goes "God dang, did you see the SIZE of those things?" And all I could say was "Yeah, I did!"

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Feb 12, 2013

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• A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Games

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• And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. "It's the best in the world", he said. "What type is it?", I asked and he said "ten past twelve".

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Past

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• And Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years, and he didn't make a penny from it. And then he did "The Twelve Chairs" - $50,000 for two more years and didn't make a penny from it. That's four years of work. And then they offered him quite a bit of money to direct "Young Frankenstein," and he took it.

  Gene Wilder

  Years, Two, Important

  Source: keranews.org

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• I saw a lot when I was young. The first time I got arrested I was twelve years old.

  Rakim

  Years, Saws, Firsts

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first.

  Werner Herzog

  Years, Age, Groups

  Source: collider.com

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• Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Christianity, Missions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1979). “Collected Works”

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• I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• I like it when you buy something and pay with a credit card, they put your credit card on the receipt, but only the last four numbers. Aha! I'm really good at guessing twelve numbers. I can't guess 16 numbers, so thanks for the assistance!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Numbers

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• I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Drunk, Austin, Lasts

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Mother, Wrestling

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Love, Country, Commitment

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.10, Bantam

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• Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.

  Roger Miller

  Travel, Kings, Regret

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• I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.

  Jim Goad

  Sense Of Humor, Melbourne, Fine

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• "Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Children, Confused, Book

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• I served in Washington, DC for twelve years in the Congress of the United States, and I served with many Republicans and Democrats, men and women of goodwill. The potential is there to really change the direction of this country, but it's going to take leadership do it.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Men, Years

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, "What can we postpone next?" The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, "For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars."

  George S. Kaufman

  Men, Together, Bills

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• I don't think every person is going to have the same twelve, but I think out of the twelve I have, nine of them every person will have. Three of them are a little bit of an option, but I say go get your own three, it's no problem.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Three, Littles

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• Well, let's see: I started [in music] at nine and quit. Then got back to it when I was twelve. Then I became a party star. In fact, I became a party!

  Richard Manuel

  Stars, Party, Nine

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• I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Needs, Return

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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