Quotes with first-born

Quotes 181 till 200 of 1905.

  • Robert Collier All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Lord George Byron All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Caroline Leavitt All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Bob Parsons Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Groucho Marx Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Judy Garland Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
    Source: Business Etiquette for the Nineties (1992) p. 8
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Barry Humphries Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
    Source: Op Broadway in Dame Edna Back With A Vengeance 2004
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Hortense Calisher An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Basil S. Walsh An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.
    Basil S. Walsh
    American banker and author
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Brandon Routh And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bob Knight And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Adolf Galland And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Billy Sheehan And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.
    Billy Sheehan
     
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  • Barry Humphries And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
    Source: My Life as Me: A Memoir
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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