If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
Quotes about hundredth (15 Quotes)
One hundredth of an inch cost me the chance of a playoff.
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.
Grinder, who serenely grindest; At my door the Hundredth Psalm.
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop for convenience, the one hundredth meridian you have reached the West.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership.
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
The average man votes below himself he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach. . .
I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music of the critics who repeated for the hundredth time, 'Beethoven is a great composer,' while balking violently at new works of the managers who arranged long tours for artists playing the same hackneyed programs fifty times over.
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star but even so and all the more what marvelous creatures we are What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is blind or not a good world to live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.
All I saw farther, in the last confusion, Was, that King George slipped into heaven for one And when the tumult dwindled to a calm, I left him practising the hundredth psalm.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.