Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years. Anthony Powell
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states-France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia-where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me. Andrew Dickson White
Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole. Novak Djokovic
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. Ernst Mayr
I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm. Louis Farrakhan
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. Paul Nurse