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Early Quotes

On the things that take root early, for better or worse.

"Early" covers a range of beginnings here — gossip that starts young inside military culture and never really stops, and teenage years spent shopping almost exclusively secondhand. See Early Life quotes for more.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

Quotes by Adam Lambert

I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original idea was.

Quotes by Adam Granduciel

I'm not an early morning person.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

Earlier Quotes

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

Quotes by Zoe Lister-Jones

Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career.

Quotes by Ymre Stiekema

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of...

Quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

Quotes by William Peter Blatty

Early Childhood Quotes

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Quotes by William Feather

The early bird catches the worm.

Quotes by William Camden

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

Quotes by Vladimir Putin

I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.

Quotes by Victoria Arlen

Early Life Quotes

Luck is not an acceptable substitute for early detection.

Quotes by Valerie Harper

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

Quotes by Torsten Wiesel

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period...

Quotes by Torsten Wiesel

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

Quotes by Tony Gilroy

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Quotes by Tom Perrotta

Early Morning Quotes

I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

Quotes by Tom Kitt

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of "early" quotes cover?
It ranges from a military lesson about gossip, to thrift-store shopping in youth, a political statement about Russia's democratic choice, and an early career milestone with Prada.
Does a quote share a military lesson?
Yes: "What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever."
Is there a quote about frugal shopping habits?
Yes: "I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores."
Does a quote address Russia's political history?
Yes, presented as the speaker's own opinion: "The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final."
Is there a quote about an early career highlight?
Yes: "Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career." See the Early Life collection for more.

A note treating a defining post-Soviet democratic choice of the early 1990s as settled and final sits alongside gratitude for a career opportunity that arrived ahead of schedule — pair with Early Childhood and Earlier quotes.