Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodor Mommsen

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Margot Asquith

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

John Boyega

My earliest vivid memory would be my Nigerian mother. She would wrap me on her back. I remember being on her back a lot. It felt like a ride, like I was riding a dinosaur; going everywhere and seeing everything.

Lemmy Kilmister

My earliest memory is shouting. At what and for what reason, I don't know. Probably a tantrum; or I may have been rehearsing. I was always an early starter.

Rick Bayless

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

Mohsin Hamid

My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

Jonathan Nolan

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

Ellsworth Kelly

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

Michael Moorcock

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Adam Clayton

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

Paul Theroux

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

Alan Alda

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

David Sanborn

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

It is, on our records, probably one of the earliest ones, as far as our recorded history goes, in 126, 130 years.

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish. The shoulder, elbow, and even parts of the wrist are already there and working in ways similar to the earliest land-living animals.

We are particularly interested in recognizing unusual patterns of illness at the earliest possible time.

Adam Hamilton

The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

Justin Timberlake

My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. Or make my friends laugh in class. And, I don't know, it's something I just really enjoy doing.

Elon Musk

We will also do another full review of all the vehicle systems, including propulsion, structures, avionics, software and ground support systems. Therefore, I expect that the earliest that launch would occur is late January. Third time's the charm.

We should be able to look at the scientific facts and say this is what it is: It's a member of the species at the earliest stage of development.

Jill Tarter

Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.

Linda Perry

This is the earliest use of maize in this region of the Andes. We have good evidence they were growing the plants on site and that they were processing it into flour.

Linda Perry

This is the earliest use of maize in this region of the Andes.

There may be some short-term disappointment today that investors are going to have to wait until the end of 2006 at the earliest for this separation to take place.

The earliest we could possibly be bidding and constructing that signal would be at some point next year, in 2007.

Herbert Read

The earliest records of our species point to group organizations - the primitive horde, nomadic tribes, settlements, communities, cities, nations.

This is, in Israel for sure, the earliest church.

Henry James Sumner Maine

I need hardly say that the publication of the Twelve Tables is not the earliest point at which we can take up the history of law.

I haven't been able to reach him, and the earliest I'll be able to reach him is tomorrow morning.

Hugh Hefner

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

Gerald Vizenor

Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

Adam Green

My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.