Famous quotes containing the words samuel, eliot, early and/or life:
“Do all that your mind inclines to. I am with you; as your mind is, so is mine.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 14:7.
“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I got a little secretarial job after college, but I thought of it as a prelude. Education, work, whatever you did before marriage, was only a prelude to your real life, which was marriage.”
—Bonnie Carr (c. early 1930s)
“I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing—it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)