Early Quotes

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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. — Nancy Mitford
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and… — Stephen Jay Gould
It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless… — Steven Weinberg
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train… — Lydia Sigourney
The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations… — Ratan Tata
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me… — James Nasmyth
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received. — Lea Thompson
If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late. — Shel Silverstein
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't… — Robert Breault
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers… — Tim O'Reilly
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant… — Stephen Jay Gould
I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people… — Katie Couric
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. — Edmund Burke
In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money… — Murray Rothbard
Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of… — Wallace D. Wattles
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it… — Frank Chodorov
Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How… — Stephen Covey
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians. — Charles Lindbergh
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan
Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day.… — Jesse Jackson
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,… — George Washington

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