Earliest Quotes

306 Earliest quotes by 276 unique authors

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object… — George Lakoff
It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age… — Robert Kagan
The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications… — Manly Hall
The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit… — E. J. Dionne
My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a… — David Suzuki
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest… — James Henry Breasted
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on… — James Henry Breasted
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a… — Immanuel Velikovsky
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. — Louis L'Amour
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent,… — Mahatma Gandhi
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new… — Georges Braque
During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience. — Jean Piaget
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are… — Brigham Young
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,… — H P Lovecraft
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March! — Bayard Taylor
Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can… — Kenny Smith
In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years -… — Lewis Thomas
Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks… — H. L. Mencken
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were… — Henry Adams
It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest… — Charles M. Schulz

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