#early

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

#colors #effects #hues #light #match

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#definitely #disguise #done #early #early work

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#link #me #nearly #oneself #only

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#blues #country #early #every #few

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here. ↗

— Perry Christie

#almost #coming #day #ended #here

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment. ↗

— Chris Christie

#care #career #course #entire #entire career

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#civilizations #early #early stages #great #stages

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

— Wesley Clark

#forever #gossip #i #learned #military

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#age #began #distorted #early #early age