Early Quotes

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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love… — Carlisle Floyd
It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams. — Paul D. Boyer
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always… — Martial
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we… — Ben Okri
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with… — Dinaw Mengestu
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte… — Dinaw Mengestu
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as… — Zadie Smith
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're… — Zadie Smith
I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when… — William E. Gladstone
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the… — Samuel Adams
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of… — George Washington
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early… — Thomas Paine
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very… — Annie Leibovitz
Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men. — Robert Benchley
Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety — Woody Allen
There’s a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play, — Justin Townes Earle
I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were… — Angela Merkel
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must… — William James
Grand Slams are different. If you can get through a few matches, the draw opens up and you get confident. You just need a little… — Lleyton Hewitt
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows? — Monica Seles
Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An… — John F. Kennedy
Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood. — George McGovern
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are… — Bridget Riley

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