"There is an invisible garment woven around us……" — Jean Giraudoux

More Earliest Quotes

This quote is filed under Earliest Quotes, one of 306 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. — Margaret Atwood
• A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as… — John Adams
• I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8,… — Bono
• A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as… — Thomas Jefferson
• In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a… — Rick Wakeman
• Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles,… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience… — Philip Pullman
• I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something… — Sergey Brin
• My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller. — Joan Rivers
• [My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in… — Charles Lyell
• Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet… — Samuel Johnson

See all 306 Earliest Quotes »