Quotes with first-born

Quotes 321 till 340 of 1905.

  • Barry Marshall Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Christopher Morley Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Carmen Electra Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
    Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
    But with a little act upon the blood.
    Burn like the mines of Sulphur.
    Source: Othello 3, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Aeschylus Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Gary Mark Gilmore Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
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  • Bobby Unser Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
    Bobby Unser
     
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  • Bob Dylan Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon - but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx - the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Carmen Electra Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Oscar Wilde Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dale Carnegie Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Auberon Herbert Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Colin Powell Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Lynd Doubt and despair, like hope, are born in imagination.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Doubt is Devil-born.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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