Quotes with first-born

Quotes 901 till 920 of 1905.

  • Henry Louis Mencken Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Lord George Byron Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lillian Smith Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Jim Backus Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
    Jim Backus
    American radio, television, film, and voice (1913 - 1989)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bell Hooks Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Beverley Nichols Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
    Beverley Nichols
    English playwright, journalist and composer (1898 - 1983)
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  • Calvin Trillin Marriage is not merely sharing the fettuccine, but sharing the burden of finding the fettuccine restaurant in the first place.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Ben Barnes Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Don DeLillo Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
    Source: White Noise (2015) 126
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bow Wow Me and Lucas Black are actually starring in that movie 'Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo.' It's gonna be hot and different. My first action movie, so it's gonna be great.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • André Maurois Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Bertrand Russell Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Men are born to succeed, not fail.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Giambattista Vico Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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