Top 70 Ninth Quotes

I grew up playing tennis. My father has a tennis court at his home in Bel Air and I was always watching him on the tennis court as a kid, he was a fanatic. I started playing seriously around ninth grade.

There were times in the writing of Ninth House’ where I thought, have I gone too far?’

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

I haven’t played quarterback since eighth or ninth grade. I didn’t see it get much attention when I completed a pass then.

When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.

The whole Lower Ninth Ward hasn’t really recovered, but I feel a good spirit in my heart that something is going on – music is coming back slowly.

It’s possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn’t the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I’m not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.

I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.

I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

Because we’re sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

In ninth grade, I played wide receiver.

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that’s when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.

The first time I applied for a U.S. visa, I was rejected. I continued to apply again and again over the course of two years and finally received my visa on the ninth try.

Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That’s what it’s all about: winning that ring.

I was at Leeds Carnegie, the ninth tier. And I was coaching students. There would have been hundreds of managers with more experience. So I had to go to the fourth tier of Swedish football, pretty much in the Arctic circle.

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It’s been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

Life’s like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it’s the ninth inning.

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

The influence of Bhaichung is immense. I remember when I was in the ninth or 10th standard we went to watch the Durand Cup in Delhi. Bhaichung was there. We just wanted to touch them.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

You know, it’s strange when you’re a guest star, because everybody knows each other so well, and they’re relaxed, and they have a routine. So you kind of feel like you’ve just been brought up to the majors for one game, and you’re batting ninth.

I was in a special class, where you skip a grade – you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn’t. I was too focused on trying to be popular.

How can I tell the eighth or ninth man on the team that I want you to work hard every day and I want you to improve and get better, but while you’re doing that you’re not going to get any minutes?

I’ve always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister’s friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months.

The game is nine innings. It’s not two, three. It doesn’t matter if it’s the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It’s not two innings – it’s nine.

When you’re recording a ninth studio album, you can’t fail. You don’t really have any fears. You just make the best record that you like. You hope your fans are gonna like it, but if they don’t, they have eight other ones to listen to.

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the ‘Saturday Evening Post.’

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

The ninth, the worst circle of the Inferno – Dante intended it for traitors.

In my own young black life, I have done my part to gentrify a half-dozen mixed neighborhoods ranging from Spanish Harlem to Fort Greene to the ninth arrondissement of Paris. Many of my well-educated black, Latino, Asian and Arab friends have done the same.

With ‘Eagle of the Ninth,’ every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, ‘Do this!’ And I say, ‘How was it?’ and he says, ‘Good.’ It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.

Anytime I can use open strings in a chord, or add a ninth, I will.

At Pixar, ‘Wall-E’ was our ninth film, and they’ve all been successes – more than that, they’ve all really touched people. Everybody wonders, ‘How do you do it?’ Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.

When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power.

The ninth grade. I went from 5’9′ to 6’8′.

I’ve been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

If you tell someone, ‘Hey, your daughter is going to win a Nobel Prize someday,’ it makes it less likely. If you say, ‘Your son is in danger of dropping out in the ninth grade,’ it could make it more likely.

In science, if you don’t do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn’t compose the ‘Ninth Symphony,’ no one else before or after is going to compose the ‘Ninth Symphony’ that he composed; no one else is going to paint ‘Starry Night’ by van Gogh.

It’s never over. You don’t want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it’s not over until the last out.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I’d grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

One of my biggest regrets in coaching was my eighth or ninth game of my career. I was wound up about a conference game in December – I was wound up tight, and we ended up playing really tight. Our players were bickering with the officials, I was bickering… and then all of a sudden we lose.

Indiana’s ninth congressional district isn’t historically known as a fount of congressional contributions. That said, if you look at my fundraising history, we’ve succeeded.

In 1979, I was in ninth grade. Before I started tenth grade, I was already rapping myself. I didn’t wait around to see what hip-hop was doing before I jumped in; I did it immediately. When I first heard it, I said, ‘I can do this.’

I’m hoping to have a ninth decade like Matisse’s.

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

I was an integral part of school plays. And when I was in the ninth standard, Om Shivpuri directed me in a play called ‘The Miser.’ It was a huge hit.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

I’ve been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I’ve been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

I boxed for the British title in my ninth fight.

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member – male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

I used to go to open gym to play with my friends and teammates, and I’d get there 30 to 45 minutes early so I could play one-on-one against my dad. When I reached ninth grade, I was finally able to beat him.