#seven

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#bed #better #better life #children #emigrated

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#came #dollars #game #get #go

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#me #mother #orphanage #seven #years

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#anything #artist #felt #had #hits

I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#company #did #doing #friends #i

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#being #brash #conscious #eight #ever

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#always #american #get #given #hope

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#asking #doing #eight #how #i

I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#anymore #bother #day #days #follow

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#criticism #help #i #learned #more