Earliest Quotes

306 Earliest quotes by 276 unique authors

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and… — Leland Stanford
The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns… — William Holman Hunt
Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift… — Howard W. Hunter
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think. — Benjamin Disraeli
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in… — John B. Watson
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities… — Isabella Beeton
In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus… — Curt Sachs
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF… — Robert Baden-Powell
If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the… — Paul Davies
One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you… — John Edgar Wideman
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers… — Sissela Bok
Some non-communist parties and CPPCC members have, at CPPCC meetings or in their proposals, called for the enactment of a law against secession at the… — Unknown Author
...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment. — Unknown Author
Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. — Jack Handey
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that… — John Stuart Mill
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable… — Immanuel Kant
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. — Boz Scaggs
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of… — John F. Kennedy
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to… — Shimon Peres
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this… — W. Somerset Maugham

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