Nine Quotes

Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine... more like cloud ten... cloud nine was old news.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.