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“My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.”

Knows Long Kids House Born Four Alive Streets Mom Died My Mom Grandfather Hung My Grandfather Widows Old Woman Father Died Preschool Widowed Grandfather Died

Author:Jen Kirkman

“Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.”

Four One Thing Streets Talent Wall Variety Firm Bankers

Author:William D. Cohan

“Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.”

Ifs Men Play Care Humanity Hours Leader Four Streets Strange Ready Optimism Towns Following Pleasant Tunes March Rhyme Banner Fondness Procession

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, "Man, I wish I had your willpower.”

Men Said Guy Wish Four Streets Homeless Willpower

Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.”

Together Cities Four Streets Fine Built London Britain Principal Finest Breadth

Author:Daniel Defoe

“So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?”

“What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!”

Thinking World Want Mind Light Wanted Can Do Walks Four Streets Crime Doctors Police Criminals Fantastic Officers Traffic Doom Police Officer Menace Traffic Light Fantastic Four

Author:Stan Lee

“People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!”

People Wells Running Used Four Impossible Streets Crowds Call Me Gauntlet

Author:Sean Connery

“The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.”

“I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.”

Four Week Streets Six Clothes East Village Riding Cop Vests East Village

Author:Jason Wiles

“There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.”

Years Games Stars Cities Four Streets Events Building Majors Built Baseball Seven Finals League Parks Hotel Bowls Recreation Fixing Super Bowl Major League All Stars Major League Baseball

Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.”

People Way Feels Said Helping Eye Fall Realizing Four Streets Car Tough Illness Corners My Way Help Me Slips Tough Times Slippery Knocked Down

Author:Lou Gehrig

“To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.”

Stills Lasts Mistake Study Five Four Economic Streets Movement Wall Prove Nine Recessions Commentators Omen Understatement Downturn

Author:Paul Samuelson

“I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'”

Ifs Knows Want Four Heard Streets Wall News Campaigns Farmers Better Off Slogans

Author:Bill Maher