Home / Topics / Three Quotes

Three Quotes

Browse 10377 quotes about Three.

Three Quotes

“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.”

People Years Home School Past Three Gone Generations Modern Ready Cooks Meals Relevant Modern Life Over The Past Home Life Three Generations Processed Food Takeaways

Author:Jamie Oliver

“We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.”

Three Generations Fans Decades Three Generations Bon Jovi

Author:Richie Sambora

“I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.”

Years Done Wanted Three Found Generations Despair West Iraq Occupation Palestinian Hopelessness Palestine Gaza Three Generations Gaza Strip

Author:Michael Franti

“The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.”

Way Used Three House Social Process Community Generations London Familiar Used To Be Landscape Buying Colony Assimilation Identifying Restoring Three Generations

Author:Peter York

“America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.”

Knows America Three Four Generations Built Immigrants Three Generations Four Generations

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.”

People Way Different Three Our Lives Generations Deny Relate Another Way Countryside Sweden Back In Time Three Generations Scandinavia

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.”

Ifs World Way Believe Use Would Be Three Heaven Fire Generations Advice Experience Fingers Folks Scar Poke Three Generations

Author:Myrtle Reed

“Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.”

Thinking Men Want Reason Problem Care Three Next Behinds Generations Strange Greed Solve Every Man Strife Probability Three Generations

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.”

Has Beens Home Three Known Generations Guests Fourth Southerner Three Generations

Author:Mary Ellen Snodgrass

“We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.”

Mind Made Home Film Law Three Father Generations Lows Including In-laws Profile Three Generations Father In Law

Author:Mira Nair

“The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.”

Men Two Three Generations He Man Fairs Tricks Meant To Be Three Times Three Generations

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.”

“Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling.”

Together Fall Three House Generations Tree Oppression Branches Adolescence Hideous Old Trees Three Generations

Book:Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

“When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.”

Three Generations Bounds Revolutionary Three Generations

Author:Elise M. Boulding