Quotes with first-born

Quotes 341 till 360 of 1905.

  • Burton Richter During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Carol Shea-Porter During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Norman Mailer Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Anais Nin Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Gore Vidal Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Mark Twain Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Beilby Porteus Envy, eldest born of hell, embru'd Her hands in blood, and taught the sons of men To make which nature never made, And God abhorr'd.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Bobby Davro Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Anita Desai Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every artist was first an amateur.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Dickens Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Annie Dillard Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Every child is born a genius.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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