Famous quotes containing the words early, life, family and/or background:
“the cluttered eyes
of early mysterious night.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)