Quotes of: Early-life Keyword

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

Nick Nolte

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

Debra Winger

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

Eric Kandel

The early bird gets the worm.

American

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

A useless life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An unused life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Nat Wolff

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

Sidney Poitier

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

Lars von Trier

I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.

Cliff Curtis

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

Roger Daltrey

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

Sheena Easton

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were goi...

Nat Turner

Race differences show up early in life.

J. Philippe Rushton

Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a religion', nor 'a philosophy.' It is the summing up and actuality of them all.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

Dolly Parton

My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a d...

Jonathan Haidt

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's...

The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women