Quotes with first-born

Quotes 741 till 760 of 1905.

  • Herodotus In soft regions are born soft men.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Joni Mitchell In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Mark Twain In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Bryant Gumbel In the first two years this is a man who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bobby Sherman In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry van Dyke In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Simon Hoggart In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
    Simon Hoggart
     
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  • Ferdinand Foch In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Alexander Pope In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Abraham Polonsky Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
    Source: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    American Cheyenne politician (1933 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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