Earliest Quotes
306 quotes by 284 authors
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Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
— Margaret Atwood
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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
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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
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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
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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.
— Joan Rivers
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[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
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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
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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
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Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Earliest Quotes
284 authors contributed a total of 306 Earliest Quotes, led by these top contributors: