Quotes with first-born

Quotes 521 till 540 of 1905.

  • William Butler Yeats How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Anna Held How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Barry Schwartz How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Murray I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.
    Source: I know how to be sour, The Guardian, December 2003
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Earl Warren I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Henry Kissinger I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Mikhail Baryshnikov I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Source: Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Anita Hill I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bruce Scheneier I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Maya Angelou I believe that every person is born with talent.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Albert Einstein I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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