#thousand

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#barack #barack obama #him #i #knew

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#day #official #people #terrorist #thousand

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

— Joe Baca

#every #independence #independence day #mayo #mexico

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#nose #pinocchio #settled #themselves #thousand

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#call #ears #education #every #hand

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#dance #how #i #learn #rather

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#based #derived #effective #fear #kinds

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#century #delaware #end #estuary #had