Quotes with first-rate

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1569.

  • Robert Collier The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Plutarch The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • J. B. Priestley The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Sir William Temple The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Bill Buford The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Mark Twain The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Maria Montessori The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Sir William Temple The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Benny Green The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bellamy Young The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Barry Commoner The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Cockburn The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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