Words matter. These are the best Early Days Quotes from famous people such as Margaret Cho, Bruce Grobbelaar, Gene Tierney, Kayleigh McEnany, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.
Liverpool had African players from the ’50s and ’60s. There were goalkeepers in the early days from South Africa. Then in 1981 there was a guy who came to Anfield. They say ‘who is this guy’ and it is me; I am African.
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother’s distress.
In its early days, Trump’s presidency ought to be viewed as the arduous start to the complicated task of draining the Washington swamp.
When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum… she said, ‘Don’t worry about that, they’re just ignorant.’
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, ‘Yeah, songwritin’ man,’ looking wistful. That wasn’t me – those kinds of people put me off. In the early days, I’d write a bunch of lyrics and almost look at them as a sort of joke, to make the rest of the boys laugh.
I first met Michael in the early days of the Jackson 5 at the family home in Los Angeles, and the memory that stands out is that Michael, as cute and wide-eyed as an 11-year-old could be, was eager to get through the interview so he could watch cartoons before having to go to bed.
At Barcelona from the early days I was seen as a goalscorer. Going somewhere else for a while has shown me I can enjoy games from a perspective other than just scoring goals.
The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.
I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.
It’s suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we’re just in the early days of that.
Whether it was in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, the 1950s under Churchill and Macmillan or in the early days of the Cameron administration, when our party has spoken for the people we have won.
In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn’t have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.
Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.
Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can’t always readily see in the early days.
As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the ’50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.
I grew up in the church and loved contemporary Christian music. I go back to the early days of when it first started with the likes of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith. Those people that really pioneered are heroes of mine.
Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.
In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory – and I think it’s pretty well borne out – is that in the ’80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.
When I want to feel especially grateful, I think about the early days dressing up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.
It’s great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It’s a central part of being in A-ha.
I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer – and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available – it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.
In the band’s early days people didn’t really know what we were, and they decided to shout at us before listening to the music.
I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time.
I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget.
In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.
In the early days of our marriage, Stephen could walk around Cambridge on my arm – a stick on one hand, leaning on me with the other. I carried a baby on one arm and Stephen on the other.
We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn’t mic the instruments – only the vocals.
We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.
It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days – I’d have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.
I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs.
I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women’s National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.
In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ my first job, which was a complete fluke.
At the time, ‘Oxygene’ was considered a totally ‘far out’ concept… What was ‘in’ at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk… and moreover, ‘Oxygene’ was instrumental. And I was French!
A lot of people forget that I played for seven years in the lower divisions; it wasn’t always ‘this glittering career.’ I had to wait a long time and even in the early days at Man U, for three years we didn’t win anything.
The Paycheck Protection Program created in the CARES Act did help many small businesses keep employees on their books in the early days of the pandemic. But many small firms are ailing now; the hospitality industry has been decimated; and state and local governments are shedding workers.
Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It’s that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
I think I would not be who I am if I did not have experience both as an audience and as a performer in those early days of my career. It taught me what entertainment is all about.
We turned our planes around after landing and got them off again in 20 minutes back in the early days; 15 minutes in many cases. That gave us a huge cost advantage because we could do more flying in a day with a single plane than anybody else.
I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I’m used to it in a way. If you’re classically trained like I am, it’s a little bit like mother’s milk to me. I enjoy it.
I was working in email in the early days in the late ’80s, and people weren’t using electronic communications at all in the way we take for granted today.
In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the ‘fast’ guitar players.
I’ve been a huge Cartier fan from my very early days.
The food isn’t too bad. It’s very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store in London in 1979. That led on to me presenting a show in the early days of Channel 4 called ‘Whatever You Want,’ which had live music and sketches.
