Quotes with first-born

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 1905.

  • Antonio Tabucchi Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Beau Bridges Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Hershey Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas à Kempis You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Jean Baudrillard You are born modern, you do not become so.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Vauvenargues You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • C. S. Lewis You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • A. Waugh You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
    A. Waugh
     
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  • Charles E. Popplestone You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life - your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night...
    Charles E. Popplestone
    American author
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  • Barbara de Angelis You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Audre Lorde You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Sher You don't have to get it right the first time.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Carole Bouquet You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Ethel Barrymore You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
    Ethel Barrymore
    American actress (1879 - 1959)
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  • Ethel Barrymore You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
    Ethel Barrymore
    American actress (1879 - 1959)
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  • Charlotte Brontë You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Yogi Berra You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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All first-born famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 93)