Earliest Quotes
306 Earliest quotes by 276 unique authors
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In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more…
— Eugene V. Debs
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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice…
— William Graham Sumner
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The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other…
— Philip Jose Farmer
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May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks…
— Alastair Campbell
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Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his…
— Unknown Author
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Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.
— Richard Allington
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One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own…
— Jean Piaget
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From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally were not supported by the…
— Thomas G. West
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My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality.…
— James Broughton
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The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is…
— Chris Chocola
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The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the…
— Giacomo Casanova
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From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul…
— Frederick Douglass
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Let us be a temple-attending people. Attend the temple as frequently as personal circumstances allow. Keep a picture of a temple in your home that…
— Howard W. Hunter
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If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very…
— Romain Rolland
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My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced…
— Julian Schnabel
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Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
— Unknown Author
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If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting,…
— Horace Mann
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Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow  him…
— Saint John Chrysostom
Who Wrote These Earliest Quotes
276 authors contributed a total of 306 Earliest Quotes, led by these top contributors: