Early Life Quotes - Page 1

He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Theodor Adorno / Sociologist
Anticipation
Early Life
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
Early Life
Folly
Attempt
Early
Piece
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Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
Barton Gellman / Journalist
Discussing
Early Life
Personal Life
Snowden
Sparing
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My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.
David Warner /
Early Life
Mess
Bit
Early
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
Pamela Stephenson / Clinical Psychologist
Early Life
Natural
Reticence
Talking
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'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.
Arunachalam Muruganantham /
Early Life
Psycho
Life Wife Me
Life Me Wife
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I've always known how patient I've been because I've been patient with pretty much everything from early life until now.
6Lack /
Early Life
Patient
Life Always Everything
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My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
Bruce Robinson / Screenwriter
Early Life
Happy Childhood
Life Great Childhood
Draw
Great Deal
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My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
Chris Crutcher / Novelist
Early Life
Origins
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The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.
Ken Loach / Film Director
Early Life
Remembering
Wiped
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People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.
Mildred Dresselhaus / Professor
Early Life
Life Thinking People
Disadvantage
Later
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Early Life
Keith
Moon
Thinking
Asked
Early
Recall
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I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.
Julie Andrews / Film Actress
Girl
Early Life
Fun
Princess
Young
Idea
Dressing
Early
Her
Wonders
Point
Young Girl
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I've lived in so many different countries over the years. I spent most of my early life in the UK, five years in Germany and summers in Austria before moving to Paris.
Rachel Khoo /
Austria
Different Countries
Early Life
Germany
Countries
Spent
Summers
Uk
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I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
Rebecca Solnit / Writer
Circumstances
Early Life
Grateful
Grew
Rights
Voice
Voiceless
Life Always Me
Life Me Grateful
Bind
Early
Life Me Voice
Silenced
Violently
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I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.
Michel Faber / Writer
Early Life
Banks
Erased
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While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.
Sherrilyn Kenyon / Writer
Book
Died
Early Life
Ends
Horror
Protagonists
Unreliable
Suffered
Escape
Terribly
Horrors
Mental
Provided
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There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.
Eric Kandel / Professor
Academic
Biology
Early Life
Indicate
Suggest
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. Coetzee / Novelist
Early Life
Impressionable
Influence
Writers
Imprint
Reads
Youthful
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It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
John Clayton /
Early Life
Exposing
Fervent
Following
Pointing
Prayer
Same Mistakes
Mistakes
Early
Paths
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Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.
Nicole Ari Parker / Film Actress
Imagination
Children
Early Life
Parent
Responsibility
Ending
He Or She
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Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it was decided that I should have my tonsils removed and adenoids scraped at the same time.
Roger Moore / Actor
Early Life
Illness
Throat
Unwelcome
Life Time Great
Followed
Raging
Sore
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In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute.
Mary Gordon /
Canada
Early Life
Radio
Television
Folk
Folk Singer
Minute
National Television
Strictly
Shower
Sing
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If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.
Kevin Macdonald /
Ancient
Battle
Dramatic
Early Life
Egyptian
March
Reconstruction
Unstoppable
Paul
Tendency
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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
Douglass North / Economist
College
Early Life
Fourth
High School Students
International
Photography
School
Winning
Deeply
Event
Indeed
Noteworthy
Prizes
Seventh
Third
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Animal
Early Life
Electricity
Hard Times
Poor
Years
Animals
Early
Raise
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As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.
William Boyd / Novelist
Early Life
Memories
Sensations
Thinking
Writer
Life Experience Thinking
Tap
Early
Experiences
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I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Ii /
Early Life
Warm
Debts
Duel
Formed
Purposes
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I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don't remember too much about my early life, but I think I had a happy childhood, growing up in Philadelphia in a loving family with five siblings.
Nick Yarris /
Early Life
Happy Childhood
One Way
Philadelphia
Self Destruction
Sibling
Life Death Family
Life Family Death
Sentenced
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
John Burroughs / Essayist
Age
Early Life
Grows
Idealistic
Prophet
Sunshine
Voice
Youth
Life Age Youth
Early
Emerson
Leave
Formative
Gets
Heights
Spokesman
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I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
Jeffrey Eugenides / Novelist
Adolescence
Childhood
Early Life
House
Memories
Remember
Years
Visual
Good Memory
Less
Early
Head
Houses
Last
Looked
Memory
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Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.
Nathan Kress / Actor
Caught
Early Life
Skills
Life Family Good
Life Family Mom
Memorize
Onto
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I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obsessed about music, somehow feeling how 'big' it is and is what it can give us. For me, this was when I got to be as a 9-year-old on stage, performing in Verdi's Otello in the children's choir.
Ruth Reinhardt /
Choir
Early Life
Life Music Believe
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I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.
Thomas Mcguane / Author
Early Life
Hopeless
Unsympathetic
Life Time Family
Brother And Sister
Failed
Life Family Time
Tough Time
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When I had a baby, I didn't leave the second floor for six months. I nursed my babies. I was a full-time homemaker. I taught them all how to read before I let them go to school. So I gave them that care in the early life that somehow feminists have been led to believe is demeaning and is not worth the time of an educated woman.
Phyllis Schlafly / Lawyer
Demeaning
Early Life
Educated
Homemaker
Months
Six
Taught
Life Time Believe
Babies
Feminists
Floor
Full-Time
Led
Nursed
Somehow
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