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Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ… — Unknown Author
One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won… — Unknown Author
In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense,… — Unknown Author
My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade… — Matt Prokop
The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time. — George Jean Nathan
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a… — Unknown Author
My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that. — Tom Bergeron
At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date. — Edith Massey
Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the… — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black... — Danielle O'Hara
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow… — William V. Shannon
I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong… — Cary Grant
When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It… — Cilla Black
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Unknown Author
Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out… — Lewis Blaine Hershey
I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork. — Irving Brecher
Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings — Dave Bristol
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
Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and… — Robert Blatchford
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there… — H. P. Blavatsky
The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what… — Unknown Author
The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist… — William Johnson Sollas
The first time you hear the word "Daddy," I don't care who you are, your heart just melts. — Unknown Author
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon… — Isoroku Yamamoto

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