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Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

Quote by Paula Abdul about parents

Thousands of Veterans earned medals for bravery every day. A few were even awarded.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, day

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about influence

I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about research

A single picture tells more than a thousand words. Any technical picture has more than thousand bugs.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

It took the sea a thousand years, A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base. It took the sea an hour one night, An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a...

Quote by E. J. Pratt about poetry, night, woman, face

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Quote by Confucius about philosophy

Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands.

Quote by William Shakespeare about love

Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks.

Quote by William Shakespeare about love

Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon.

Quote by William Shakespeare about love, man

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Quote by Hank Aaron

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

Quote by Lester Bangs about couple, things

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about anger, moment, day, life

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

Quote by Joe Baca about independence, americans, day

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet...

Quote by Richard Bach about evolution, civilization, intelligence, gifts, love

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Quote by Richard Bach

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Quote by Richard Bach

A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water

In 1920, a couple hundred thousand acres had been set aside called ''Hawaiian homelands. '' The idea was to rehabilitate Hawaiians by letting them homestead on acreage set aside for them.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, idea

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Quote by John Adams