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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. -- Margaret Thatcher
If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win. -- Carl Hubbell
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. -- Josh Billings
And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go. -- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard. -- Little Richard
For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song. -- Hilary Rosen
A penny saved is a penny earned. -- Benjamin Franklin
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves. -- Benjamin Franklin
Life Insurance is the only tool that takes pennies and guarantees dollars. -- Ben Feldman
I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name. -- Richard Prince
We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare. -- Rand Paul
A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter. -- Mary Landrieu
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. -- Ronald Reagan
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes. -- Jim Rohn
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. -- Steven Wright
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. -- Barbara Kingsolver
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today. -- Dale Carnegie
The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home. -- John Conyers
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing.... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy? -- Anne Frank
Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it. -- Fulton J. Sheen
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way. -- Drew Barrymore
You sell your happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world is not worth your smile. Even if you are made the king or the emperor of the world, it's not worth giving away your smile. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go. -- Robert Goolrick
That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies. -- Tom Golisano
My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them. -- Mia Sara
I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag. -- Jessica Simpson
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money. -- Lilly Ledbetter
Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. -- Jennifer Garner
I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working! -- Joanna Garcia
I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes. -- John Cassavetes
Liquid oxygen is one of the cheapest manufactured substances on Earth. In large quantities, it costs pennies per kilogram - cheaper than milk or beer. -- Henry Spencer
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it. -- Damien Hirst
One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show. -- Nick Bantock
If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies. -- Andy Samberg
A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints. -- Leonard Nimoy
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans. -- Hugh Howey
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette. -- Ed Markey
I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine. -- Andy Behrman
The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago. -- Ramez Naam
While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising. -- Douglas Rushkoff
By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative. -- Jean Chatzky
Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and native born women who work in the service arena - such as domestic workers - are not valued for their work, making pennies on the dollar compared to male counterparts; and, women are disproportionately affected by family reunification policies. -- Christine Pelosi
I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it. -- Steve Martin
Analogue dollars for digital pennies. -- Jeff Zucker
My loneliness tasted like pennies. -- Janet Fitch
Thoughts are pennies from Heaven -- Hazel Cartwright
In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar. -- Carlos Salinas
If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves. -- J. Paul Getty
For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies. -- Bo Burnham
Ð¡ount dollars, not pennies. Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. -- Elizabeth Warren
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. -- Thomas Sowell
A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details. -- John Wooden
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold. -- Dolly Parton
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Be careful who you call your friends. Iâ??d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. -- Al Capone
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. -- Jack Kerouac
I made a joke today, and I made it out of pennies. It was a very poor joke. -- Jarod Kintz
And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains -- Greg Mortenson
Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet. -- Charles Spurgeon
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. -- Harper Lee
Good coffee is a benefit, but great coffee is a reward, and the difference between good and great is just pennies a day. -- Richard Wyckoff
In the space between our bodies there is a cup holder filled with pennies a distance which can often take years to cross. -- Mira Gonzalez
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year. -- Ben Feldman
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We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little -- Dean Griffiths
I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it about $25. -- Demetri Martin
An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books. -- Douglas Adams
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies. -- Stephen King
We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I'm worth it. -- Madonna Ciccone
I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense. -- Claire Messud
This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in 10,000 pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over 14,000 dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him. -- Tina Fey

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