Our Earliest Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
— Margaret Atwood
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Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they…
— William H. Calvin
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Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
— Katherine Ellison
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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
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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
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The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion,…
— David Richo
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Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world.…
— Noy Holland
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Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.
— Judith Viorst
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Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest…
— Lucy Larcom
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America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as…
— James Frey
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The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit…
— E. J. Dionne
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There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning…
— Henri Bergson
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Our earliest ancestors probably learned that loyalty was a valuable survival tool. In the jungle, the desert, or the open plains, loyalty to your tribe…
— Ash Sweeney
Who Wrote These Our Earliest Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Our Earliest Quotes as follows: