Earliest Quotes

306 Earliest quotes by 276 unique authors

Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of… — Merlin Stone
Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's… — Gordon Korman
Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of… — John Bradshaw
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives,… — Maurice Sendak
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years… — Philip Pullman
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on… — Walter Benjamin
We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister,… — Pat Conroy
Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them.… — Dan Abnett
Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want… — Melissa Bank
Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms,… — BrenÃ© Brown
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling… — Alice Miller
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must… — Erik Erikson
We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the… — Elise M. Boulding
I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous… — Oscar Wilde
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist… — Frank Sulloway
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than… — Dwight Yoakam
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. — Janine di Giovanni
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful. — Ed Asner
My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did. — Joe Lhota
The earliest golfing memories that I have are of the Italian Open when I was about six years of age. Watching that event is how… — Matteo Manassero
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque. — Alan Alda
My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city.… — Paul Theroux
So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to… — Chelsea Peretti
The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes… — John Boyle O'Reilly

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276 authors contributed a total of 306 Earliest Quotes, led by these top contributors: