Quotes about three-fourths (16 Quotes)


    With the girls we showed that we can compete in a number of events. We are exceedingly young, three-fourths of the team is freshman and sophomores. With the boys we only have a dozen guys and it is just difficult to fill events and I thought they did a nice job to fill what they could.

    In the summertime, it really made sense to me. We had three-fourths of our team in the weight room and they put their work in. These kids have worked harder than any group I have ever seen. They've all bought in to the things we're preaching.



    If indeed somebody came here in the middle of the daytime and hung the dog, there's something seriously wrong there. Like I said, you can hear a couple dogs barking. Three-fourths of the neighbors have dogs. So, I think it's a pretty animal-friendly area.




    Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

    Any major change to convention regulations requires a three-fourths vote. Japan has a quarter block over the minority on most issues. That creates an uphill hurdle when it comes to increasing or decreasing protection for whales.


    Dividing industry into 'big' and 'little' is artificial. Industry is both that makes it Industry. Ninety-eight per cent of American industries employ less than 500 men each. Today's big industries were small within our lifetime, many of today's small industries will become big before our lifetime ends. Large industries make small industries necessary, and small industries make large ones possible. Wipe out large industries and you wipe out three-fourths of the small ones wipe out the small ones and the large ones cannot go on. They work together. Each has a part in the nation's job.



    Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

    Three-fourths of the state legislatures would have to say yes to that. Opponents are trying to convince legislators that if they ratify the amendment, there won't be any more federal money,




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