Early Life Quotes - Page 2

• ... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Gentleman, Vices

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.354

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• ... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

  Hortense Odlum

  Marriage, Disappointment, Business

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• I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.

  Catharine Beecher

  Teacher, Sex, Home

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.69

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• My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Piano, Three, My Sister

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again.

  Roger Housden

  Years, Purpose, Found

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Energy, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Children, Responsibility, Imagination

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• I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.

  Ray Bradbury

  Aunt, Wish, Dresses

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

  Noah Webster

  Religious, Discipline, Political

  Noah Webster (1953). “Letters”

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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

  Grateful, Rights, Voice

  "Men Explain Things to Me — Facts Didn’t Get in the Way" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

  Donald Glover

  Revenge, Kids, Hell

  Song: Fuck It All, Album: Culdesac, 2010

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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

  Memories, Years, House

  "Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Education, Sex, Children

  Phyllis Bottome (1948). “Search for a Soul”, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock [1948]

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• As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Confused, Maturity

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Legacy, Biographies, Trouble

  Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1917). “The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero”

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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

  Book, Horror, Ends

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• I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

  William E. Gladstone

  Needs, Advantage, Grammar

  Letter to Mrs. Gladstone on January 14, 1860. "Gladstone as Financier and Economist" by Francis Wrigley Hirst, p. 242, 1931.

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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

  Influence, Impressionable

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• He who matures early lives in anticipation.

  Theodor Adorno

  Anticipation

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.161, Verso

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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

  Hard Times, Animal, Years

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• Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Ice, Pitcher

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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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

  Girl, Fun, Princess

  "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.

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• When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

  David Richo

  Fear, Identity, Connections

  David Richo (2014). “When Love Meets Fear: How to Become Defense-less and Resource-full”, p.39, Paulist Press

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• I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full of uncertainties. It still is. My "Buddha book" expresses that. Perhaps that's what created this impression of earnestness.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

  Samuel Rogers

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

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