“I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God willing, maybe one of you one day will even rise up and get to be president of this country — or maybe forty-four in a row. But that’s my point, is they’ve taken this idea of no establishment as persecution, because they feel entitled, not to equal status, but to greater status.” PeopleFeelsBelieveIdeasCountryHardChristianAmericaPresidentTakenGreaterFourWillingOne DayEqualGods WillFortyEstablishmentEntitledPersecutionPersecuted Author:Jon Stewart
“The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.” PeopleYearsFirstsLongMadeHandsThreeNextDifficultHalfFourWifeFeetThousandPrisonMy WifeMilesGoldenBoatBeachFortyPoundsGatesFour YearsTiedSan FranciscoPublicityFeatsTokyoBathtubsHandcuffsTowHands TiedForty Years OldLong BeachAlcatraz Author:Jack LaLanne
“It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.” FacesThreeFourTwentiesEightThirtyForty Book:Us: A Novel Source: Us: A Novel
“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.” YearsChildrenLightAgeDeathMotherFourWifeSonHugeBirthKingsDaughterHundredDiedHeavyScoreFortyFour YearsUtopiaSuffocatingBirth Of A Child Author:Francois Rabelais
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.” RunningFacesLibertyFourFeetMissingFootballBasketballCourtFortyYardsNinetyTorchesDimesSprint Author:Donald Hall
“I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .” ThreeFiveFourTwentiesThirtyFortyTwelveFifteen Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!” YearsFourDivineMountainSeasonsFortyFour Seasons Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.” KnowsWayChildrenHas BeensWould BeAbleParentFourInfluenceFortyDesirable Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.” PeopleFeelsYearsMayChildrenIdeasCountryStatesHappensGivenHoursUnitedDestinyCasesUnited StatesFourTwentiesDetermineDisappearFortyOccupationFrighteningJustificationCnn Author:Edwidge Danticat
“We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?” PeopleMillionsFourSafeLogicAidsTreatedFortyDiscussingSafe Places Author:Sharon Stone
“Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.” BelieveStatesPresidentBornUnitedUnited StatesFourCitizensRepublicanPercentBarackFortyVotersPresidencyPresident Barack ObamaUnconstitutional Author:Lawrence O'Donnell