Earliest Quotes

306 quotes by 284 authors

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. — Margaret Atwood
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions… — John Adams
I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard… — Bono
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so… — Thomas Jefferson
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you… — Rick Wakeman
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did… — Sergey Brin
My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller. — Joan Rivers
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability… — Samuel Johnson
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what… — Thomas Carlyle
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they… — William H. Calvin
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to… — Roderick Murchison
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception… — Peter Kropotkin
Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them -… — T. Berry Brazelton
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account… — Joseph Dalton Hooker

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