Thirds Quotes · Page 4

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

— Donna Brazile

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

— Ani DiFranco

Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.

— P. J. Plauger

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

— David Levithan

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

— Richard Hofstadter

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

— Beverly Cleary

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

— Juvenal

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

— Michael Emerson

I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is…

— Brian K. Vaughan

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is…

— Scott Pelley

When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to…

— Donna Farhi

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for…

— Joe Baca

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone.…

— D. H. Lawrence

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping…

— Gustav Fechner

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will…

— Aldous Huxley

Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour.…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because…

— Rodney Atkins

All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World…

— George Carlin

To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the…

— Teresa of Avila

It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality…

— Harry Elmer Barnes

With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a…

— Marjane Satrapi

We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And…

— Shelby Harris

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his…

— Daniel Quinn

Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people…

— Howard Schultz

One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first…

— Alan Moore

People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the…

— Lizz Winstead

And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end…

— Mike Penner

When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were…

— Shane Claiborne

We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived…

— Fred Alan Wolf

Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local…

— Walter E. Williams

The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

— Paulo Coelho

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

— Virginia Woolf

Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?

— Steven Wright

Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

— Ralph Kiner

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

— James Toback

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

— Renee Fleming

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.

— Murray Walker

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

— John Entwistle