Quotes with first-born

Quotes 801 till 820 of 1905.

  • Thomas Carlyle It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Abigail Van Buren It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Augustus Hare It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Bela Lugosi It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Greil Marcus It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Aldous Huxley It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Jonathan Swift It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carolyn See It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bryn Terfel It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Blythe Danner It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Billy Eckstine It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Aristotle It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Arthur E. Waite It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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