#percentage

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#being #better #better things #country #enjoyed

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. ↗

— Lois Capps

#children #defined #double #early #more

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#boxer #boxing #higher #i #land

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

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#believed #believers #culture #eight #fact

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game. ↗

— Alton Brown

#actually #burger #cheeseburgers #connoisseur #content

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#across #agree #certain #country #criticisms

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey. ↗

— Chris Christie

#balance #billion #budget #budget deficit #california

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#business #cattle #cotton #i #live

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #commonplace #contain #each #higher