#thousand

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#christian #country #listen #networks #now

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#barely #basic #basic needs #bills #dollars

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#i #inch #killed #like #ought

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

Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.' ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#bring #get #home #hundreds #i

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

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#burned #daughters #deep #dna #fear

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. ↗

— David Eagleman

#billions #brain #connections #galaxy #given

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary