First Time In My Life Quotes

#1. Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought, 'I'll become a comedian, and then if everyone laughs at me, I'll be famous.' So I went on stage one night and, for the first time in my life, everyone stopped laughing at me.

Emo Philips

#2. I'm glad that when I was on the sidewalk on the square in town with you and Casey all those years ago, I decided for the first time in my life not to play it safe."
"I'm glad too, Ivey, seriously fuckin' glad you took a chance on me.

Kristen Ashley

#3. For the first time in my whole life, I feel like I have control over the monsters in my head. For the first time in my life, I have hope.

Mia Sheridan

#4. Seattle gives you your breath back. Fills your lungs. I take it in and feel like I can breathe for the first time in my life.

Tarryn Fisher

#5. In the last round I was so wiped-out that for the first time in my life I tried to get disqualified. He was throwing punches non-stop and he was dangerous with those shots and becoming a little bit too cute for my liking. I backed to the ropes and catapulted off them and nutted him.

Stephen Richards

#6. [It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#7. Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I began to compare the things to human machines, to ask myself for the first time in my life how an ironclad or a steam engine would seem to an intelligent lower animal.

H.G.Wells

#8. Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

Nick Hornby

#9. For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.

William Goldman

#10. To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played. To-night,

Oscar Wilde

#11. Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.

Oscar Wilde

#12. For the first time in my life, which had for years been sometimes witlessly gregarious, I discovered the pain of unwanted solitude. Like a felon suddenly thrown into solitary confinement, I found myself feeding off the unburned fat of inward resources I barely knew I possessed.

William Styron

#13. Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

Ann Coulter

#14. It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past.

Alice McDermott

#15. The introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.

Brigham Young

#16. Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

Carlos Santana

#17. Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.

Ann Beattie

#18. Privilege encased them, surrounded them like armor. In the cast of their faces was the assumption that they would never have to take anything very seriously. For the first time in my life I saw the truth in the old proposition that the rich were better-looking.

Peter Straub

#19. I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

Sarah Addison Allen

#20. For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

Lionel Barrymore

#21. I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting ... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.

Barbara Rosenblat

#22. For the first time in my life, home was where my heart was, and I'd left my heart in Chicago.

Garrett Leigh

#23. For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.

Mary J. Blige

#24. SCORPIUS: The what? The where? Look, I am as excited as you are to be a rebel for the first time in my life - yay - train roof - fun - but now - oh.

J.K. Rowling

#25. I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.

Sara Blakely

#26. ...I had an acute sense that the walls were closing in on "real" Christians... For the first time in my life, I felt like a persecuted minority.

J.D. Vance

#27. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.

Patrick Rothfuss

#28. His eyes blazed at me, but it was the best kind of heat. He smiled, and for the first time in my life I believed that, for him, I could be more than I'd ever dreamed.

Garrett Leigh

#29. For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.

Connie Chung

#30. I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.

David Keith

#31. I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

Sam Donaldson

#32. It must be because I've got a permanent job for the first time in my life,he thought. That's why I can't help hearing all sorts of things.

Tarjei Vesaas

#33. Staring up at my mate - surrounded by my friends and family - for the first time in my life, I felt really and truly lucky to be me. I wouldn't trade a thing.

Aileen Erin

#34. I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.

Lang Leav

#35. You're ever song I have ever sung. I'll never let anything hurt you again. For the first time in my life, my dreams aren't about me. They're about you. -Jax

Abbi Glines

#36. I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.

Michael Chabon

#37. I had never before seen somebody I admired understand what was expected of him, choose to act otherwise, and be happier for it. For the first time in my life I realized that it was possible to reinvent oneself.

Joel Derfner

#38. Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

Robin Sloan

#39. For the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching ... by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

Stephen King

#40. I was starting to think of her as mine. For the first time in my life, I wanted someone for myself. And I would take her any way she came.

Helena Hunting

#41. I'd been sleeping for twenty-two years. I felt like, for the first time in my life, I was finally conscious. Life was finally happening. I was making it happen. I

Penny Reid

#42. My true place in the world, it turned out, was somewhere beyond myself, and if that place was inside me, it was also unlocatable. This was the tiny hole between self and not-self, and for the first time in my life I saw this nowhere as the exact center of the world.

Paul Auster

#43. I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

Paul McCartney

#44. This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

LaToya Jackson

#45. For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.

Stefan Zweig

#46. For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

Lucy Lawless

#47. I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#48. I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Oscar Wilde

#49. And for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

Stephen Chbosky

#50. I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

Emily Procter

#51. For the first time in my life, I feel wanted... like I finally belong. There is nowhere on Earth I would rather be than here with you. You do not cage me, Styx. You make me soar.

Tillie Cole

#52. For the first time in my life I was admitting defeat.

Christina Lauren

#53. If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.

Jon Bon Jovi

#54. This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

John Green

#55. I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life.
I tried to stop her.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Viktor E. Frankl

#57. I feel like I'm moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren't real inside - and very often feeling really dissatisfied - to now living in reality for the first time in my life since I was a kid, and learning to appreciate where I am now while actually sitting with that reality.

Damien Rice

#58. For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

Jack Kerouac

#59. How strange and glorious it was to be anchored to nothing, to be free, in some particular way, for the first time in my life.

Cheryl Strayed

#60. For the first time in my life, I felt a gentleness, a softness in the unfolding of each day.

Han Nolan

#61. When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#62. I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US ... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

Gideon Rachman

#63. the first time in my life my status has little meaning. For the first time in my life my money has little meaning. For the first time in my life I realize life is meaningless without the person you want to

J.A. Huss

#64. This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#65. Then I've been drunk, too," admitted Francie.
"On beer?"
"No. Last spring, in McCarren's Park, I saw a tulip for the first time in my life.

Betty Smith

#66. Aware that a man has no more chance with a woman, armed with the offensive and defensive weapons of tongue, tears, nails, and bamboo, than in a river with an alligator, I, for the first time in my life, acted prudently, and fled the fight.

Edward John Trelawny

#67. At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each other in a while, but as they all gathered around hugging, kissing, and well-wishing each other, I found myself feeling for the first time in my life like maybe I'd missed out on something.

Dito Montiel

#68. A woman who's given me a home-a purpose.And for the first time in my life,I-"
"A purpose?" Jennika squints, as she cocks her head and steps closer. "And just what exactly might that be? You planning to take over her garden? Apprentice as an herbal healer? I had much higher hopes for you, Daire.

Alyson Noel

#69. It was a kind love, a selfless love. I was an explorer and you were a traveller. We met at crossroads. I saw love in your smile and I recognized in for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I'm already home.

Lang Leav

#70. I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.

Karin Slaughter

#71. I have heard great music--even sublime music. I've heard music fit for princes, for kings. I have hard music fit for any monarch. But that night, for the first time in my life, I heard music fit for God.

J. Scott Featherstone

#72. Feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

John Green

#73. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one.

Sarah Addison Allen

#74. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#75. He met her eyes. "Even if I'm deep in my head, I still need you, Julie. That's how I knew when I fell in love with you. For the first time in my life I need someone so much I can't turn it off and convince myself otherwise.

Joey W. Hill

#76. For the first time in my life, my future was a blank page. It was perfect. And beyond scary.

S.T. Bende

#77. Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.

Frank Iero

#78. For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

Justin Cronin

#79. Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don't have to prove anything, I'm not rushing everywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.

Isabel Allende

#80. First time I think about the world.
What the world got to do with anything, I think. Then I see myself sitting there quilting tween Shug Avery and Mr - - . Us three set together gainst Tobias and his fly speck box of chocolate. For the first time in my life, I feel just right.

Alice Walker

#81. I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.

Kristanna Loken

#82. She's my other half. Like for the first time in my life, I know what being unquestionably whole feels like. And I realize that the notion that my heart beats for me alone is a lie. It beats for us.

Kim Holden

#83. Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker for a chili dog with chopped onions under a blanket of processed American cheese.

Walter Mosley

#84. Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.

Misty Copeland

#85. All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

John Frusciante

#86. For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.

June Allyson

#87. I was naked and he had more possessions than he could use all at once. I was the proletarian, he was the capitalist, and my relations to him were reduced to the basic proposition of all revolutions: die, I want what you have. It was the first time in my life I'd taken an interest in politics.

MacDonald Harris

#88. I'd never felt anything quite like it. For the first time in my life, everything was as it should be. Because the opposite of war ... is fucking.

Brian K. Vaughan

#89. And for the first time in my life, the following afternoon, I went into the West.

Jack Kerouac

#90. I have been praying, too, for the first time in my life. That parson, Tugwell, he helped me see - not the error of my ways, for I knew them all to well already - but what was wanting in me. I am far from perfect, I know, but I am changed and changing still

Julie Klassen

#91. The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Naguib Mahfouz

#92. I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life ... her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

Maya Angelou

#93. For perhaps the first time in my life I appreciated the corrosive effects of total uncertainty.

John D. MacDonald

#94. More than that, I liked being known, and for the first time in my life, I was known by another. I'm not saying I liked what she knew about me, not proud of the bits and pieces, but somehow she was standing inside my skin and yet I didn't experience shame at her reflection.

Charles Martin

#95. For the first time in my life, I believe that maybe I can be more than what I am, that I can be more than I ever dreamed of. Because of him.

Lucy Hawkins

#96. For the first time in my life, every day when I woke up I had clean clothes, and something to eat two, three times a day, as much as I wanted. Once I had that, I realized my revolution was over.

Dinaw Mengestu

#97. Being touched by Beau is like being touched for the first time in my life, and I never want him to stop.

Kristen Proby

#98. I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

LaToya Jackson

#99. Although it seemed like such a simple thing, for the first time in my life I realized the importance of an introduction. An introduction by a mutual friend buys instant credibility, especially when the mutual friend was universally liked - as

Penny Reid

#100. Because it was the first time in my life that I gave myself permission to be me. I was still shy and self-conscious and terrified of people, but Jenkins had essentially freed me of the bonds of having to try to fit in.

Jenny Lawson