Earliest Quotes

306 Earliest quotes by 276 unique authors

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am… — P.G. Wodehouse
My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it… — Malcolm Gladwell
...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood… — Timothy Keller
Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light… — P. C. Cast
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest… — Edward Carpenter
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

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