Earliest Quotes

306 Earliest quotes by 276 unique authors

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course â€” it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecterâ€™s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held… — Thomas Harris
My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs. — Christina Perri
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized â€“ the right to be… — Edward Kennedy
I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife. — Jilly Cooper
From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life… — George J. Mitchell
Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they… — Marcel Proust
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called â€˜erotika pathemataâ€™ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering. — Marina Warner
I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free… — Frank Auerbach
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed… — Andrew Jackson
The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence… — George Gaylord Simpson
It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis… — Unknown Author
Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were… — Alvin Boyd Kuhn
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. — Tom DeMarco
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward… — Plato
Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard… — Hilaire Belloc
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So… — Charles Dudley Warner
The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking… — Terryl L. Givens
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any… — Julius Wellhausen
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up… — Johan Huizinga

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