Average Quotes
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.
I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers.
The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.
The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.
They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.
I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.
I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.
In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.
Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.
I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.
I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.
I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.
The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.
It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.
If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.
On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.
People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?
Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.