Earliest Quotes

306 Earliest quotes by 276 unique authors

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in… — Jamie Cullum
From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal… — David Perlmutter
My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps. — Amanda Harlech
My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. — Bella Freud
My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to… — Brendan Myers
Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds… — P.J. O'Rourke
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations… — Mary McFadden
My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant. — Rick Bayless
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before… — Alice Morse Earle
My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated… — Jacob Epstein
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement,… — Elliott Abrams
The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based… — Sherwin B. Nuland
It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The… — Ban Ki-moon
One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there… — Ban Ki-moon
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but… — Octavia Butler
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Brad Holland
One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my… — Christian McKay
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the… — Tom Chatfield
My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars. — Jonathan Nolan
Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find… — Michael Moorcock
I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that.… — David Sanborn
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God. — Adam Hamilton
The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving. — Tinashe
From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science. — George E. Brown, Jr.

Who Wrote These Earliest Quotes

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