Third Quotes

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

Fire is the most tolerable third party

Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.

The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

That's a sure sign someone is going crazy - when he refers to himself in the third person, talks in low tones, and walks around wearing shades all day!

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

I miss third grade because you could kill people in dodgeball. Remember the rules to dodgeball? If you're fat or have glasses, don't show up because you'll die.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

There's a reason the Third World came in third.