First Years Quotes
38 quotes by 34 authors
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I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
— Desi Arnaz
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If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children…
— Stanley Greenspan
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It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she…
— Helen Keller
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If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want…
— Kris Kristofferson
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I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that…
— Rob Reiner
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Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings…
— Melanie Klein
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for…
— Bela Fleck
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Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or…
— Josef Albers
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It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained…
— Victor Serge
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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am…
— Ellen Terry
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The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children…
— Hillary Clinton
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In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
— Andrzej Wajda
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Something can happen in your life, and you might want and need something different from your spouse. Most people forget that you have to create…
— John Travolta
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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
— Ellen Terry
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The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I…
— Lucy Stone
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I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I…
— Anne Perry
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
— Plato
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My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of…
— Standing Bear
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I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child…
— Nick Clegg
Who Wrote These First Years Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 38 First Years Quotes, led by these top contributors: