Quotes with first-born

Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 1905.

  • Ernest Hemingway To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • William Butler Yeats To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • William Shakespeare To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles J. Givens To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Ruth Gordon To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Eric Hoffer To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Lord George Byron To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aldo Leopold To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • William Shakespeare To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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