Quotes with first-born

Quotes 921 till 940 of 1905.

  • C. S. Lewis Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • J. Swartz Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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  • Victor Hugo Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bobby Vinton Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • James Baldwin Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Fred A. Allen Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Erich Fromm Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • William James Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Angela Carter Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • J. S. Habgood Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
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  • Brit Hume MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Octave Mirbeau Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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  • Harry Mathews Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Josh Billings Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Alexander Scriabin My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
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  • Brett Hoebel My approach to training changed dramatically throughout my experience as one of the trainers on 'The Biggest Loser.' Getting to know each person was an important reminder that to get the body physically fit, you must first get mentally and emotionally 'fit.'
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Bob Balaban My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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