#twelve

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#adult #basic #children #even #fifteen

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#business #conquered #forged #into #jesus

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#group #ignorance #jury #people #twelve

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun. ↗

— Matt Stone

#animated #before #entire #fun #goes

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#acting school #am #being #bird #i

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. ↗

— Tug McGraw

#between #ears #elbow #i #inches

Just ten minutes, but everything was different now. He was different, the world was different. His father was nowhere in it. And with that, tears came to his eyes. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#death #justin #the-twelve #death

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#along #biggest #biggest influence #bob #bob dylan

I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96. ↗

— Herman Cain

#bank #banks #been #board #chairman

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#bad #because #bottom #down #end