#percentage

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#below #black #children #classes #day

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#better #big #big success #hundred #i

Obviously the more pucks you get to the net, the more the percentages go up. ↗

— Greg Moore

#go #more #net #obviously #percentages

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#boast #concern #country #future #growth

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#deal #degree #great #great deal #how

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#crime #crime rate #decreased #graduating #greater

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. ↗

— Eduardo Galeano

#almost #am #america #anything #astonished

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage. ↗

— Suze Orman

#ignore #mortgage #percentage #rate #shopping

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay. ↗

— Dan Savage

#everyone #gay #percentage #tiny

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#bat #favor #fellow #fretting #got