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Appeared Quotes

On the moment something, or someone, first shows up.

Appearing shows up here as a stage debut, the first traces of ancient technology and entertainment, ongoing relevance for a cause, and someone arriving unexpectedly into a lonely stretch of time. See First quotes for more on beginnings.

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert...

Quotes by Adelbert von Chamisso

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

Quotes by Zoe Tapper

I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And...

Quotes by Zeresenay Alemseged

If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

Quotes by Zac Goldsmith

First Quotes

For two days I had the company of a girl. She appeared next to me. It was no less of a miracle if it was my imagination which had summoned her up, because it happened at the very moment I...

Quotes by Yossi Ghinsberg

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

Quotes by William Hamilton Maxwell

I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.

Quotes by William Golding

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

Quotes by William Bartram

Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.

Quotes by Wietse Venema

Great Quotes

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal...

Quotes by Terry Glavin

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

Quotes by Terence McKenna

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

Quotes by Terence Stamp

I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter...

Quotes by Tara Westover

Like Quotes

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I...

Quotes by Suzan-Lori Parks

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of...

Quotes by Susan Vreeland

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'

Quotes by Steve Erickson

In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in a sense contradicts the original assumption by refusing to follow what had seemed a reasonable train...

Quotes by Steve Allen

Man Quotes

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science...

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Appeared quotes collection about?
It gathers moments of arrival and emergence - stepping into school productions, tracing the earliest appearance of human technology and art, and even an unexpected, almost miraculous encounter with another person.
Why do people search for quotes about something or someone appearing?
Appearing carries a sense of surprise or arrival, so people search for these quotes when describing a turning point, a first opportunity, or an unexpected person or moment entering their life.
Is there a quote here about early human history and technology?
Yes - one sample traces the first appearance of technology to stone tools millions of years ago, and early entertainment to ancient flutes, a broad view of how far back 'appearing' can be traced. It connects with the First collection.
Does this collection include quotes about a meaningful personal encounter?
It does - one line describes a two-day encounter with someone who appeared beside the narrator, wondering aloud whether it might have been imagination, a wistful and almost dreamlike moment.
How are Appeared quotes typically used?
They're a good fit for captions about first opportunities, unexpected encounters, or reflecting on how something came into being. For more, see Great or Man.

A few lines treat a sudden appearance as something close to a small miracle. Related: Great and Man quotes.