Thirds Quotes

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(For the most part, the gulf between Mexican Americans and other ethnic groups reflects differences in family background. Mexican American children account for two-thirds (68 percent) of California children in families where neither parent has completed high school.) When parents have little education and few resources, their kids simply have more ground to make up, ... Given the compelling role socioeconomic conditions play, the state should consider bolstering programs that assist parents -- such as improving adult literacy and English language skills -- and that target workplaces.

- Deborah Reed

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

- Paul Simon

You wake up one morning and you go, "What happened? Where did it all go so fast? There are many more things I want to do." And I figure a lot of people feel the same. A lot of people have so much they want to do, but society says, "Step back, youth must be served." I say, "You`re right, youth must be served - after us. Get in line. We`re coming back for seconds and thirds, and when we`re finished helping ourselves, it`s your turn." Just because people get older doesn`t mean they abandon their dream or their ability to want to do something, so Rocky is symbolic of still wanting to participate. Rocky says the last thing to age is the heart, so I wanted to do a film that shows our generation is not on the outside looking in; it`s still vital and wants to be part of the parade, not watching the parade. I want to show that life is not over at 50. People say, "Come on, grow old gracefully." No, why? I`m not ready. I know people will think Rocky is my story, but it`s also my generation`s story.

- Sylvester Stallone

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

- Pete Rose

(Asked if Star Wars (1977) had made him a fortune): Yes, blessed be "Star Wars". But two-thirds of that went to the Inland Revenue and a sizable sum on VAT. No complaints. Let me leave it by saying I can live for the rest of my life in the reasonably modest way I am now used to, that I have no debts and I can afford to refuse work that doesn`t appeal to me.

- Alec Guinness

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

- Dean Rusk

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

- Dean Rusk

When they scored, we had our seconds, thirds and fourths in. It left a bad taste in our mouths, but it doesn`t take away from how well our first-teamers played.

- Steve Bell

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

- Aldous Huxley

Two-thirds of our clients are dual-income families . . . it`s a matter of time, stress, disposable income.

- Mark Richardson

I feel very sorry for your victims. It will be some small consolation that they can get two thirds of their money back. You are a crook, you are in prison, and that is where you deserve to be.

- Gareth Edwards

As for AIDS, it`s a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it`s a quarter; after that it`s a childhood disease.

- Larry Niven

The online gaming market is currently climbing a large growth curve and the advantage 888 has over PartyGaming is that its business is more diverse, with two-thirds of its income derived from casino games, especially roulette and blackjack.

- Richard Hunter

Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don`t believe in Christ, you can`t get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world`s population!

- Neale Donald Walsch

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

- Al Knutson

I needed to explain that Louisiana`s coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

- Alicia Munnell

I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

- Alison O'Connor

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

- American Society

Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.

- Amy Coleman

If you look at the Harris poll, two-thirds of them really don`t know what they`re doing. About one-third does, but two-thirds don`t,

- Anne Menard

I think it`s going to be close, ... Two-thirds, though, is a lot of votes. I wouldn`t say I`m confident by any stretch of the imagination. I do feel like it has a lot of support statewide.

- Arthur A. Hartman

Two-thirds of families admitted they had difficulty trying to accommodate everyone`s tastes when planning a summer break,

- Avidan Weitzman

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn`t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

- Jimmy Carter

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn`t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

- Jimmy Carter

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man`s cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor

- Charles Reade

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

- Ambrose Bierce