First Year Quotes

#1. This is the first year for me as a teacher and, by the looks of this class, I'm hoping it won't be my last.

Phil Wohl

#2. I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

James Frecheville

#3. When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#4. Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

A. J. Jacobs

#5. I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?

Juliana Spahr

#6. I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

John Edensor Littlewood

#7. I think the biggest thing for me now is that I have a better understanding of what to expect as far as things go and the scheduling. Your first year is a little crazy because you are preparing for the draft and don't know where you will be playing.

Giovani Bernard

#8. I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

Zoe Kazan

#9. Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

Brett Favre

#10. My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

Dwight Gooden

#11. If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

Richard P. Feynman

#12. To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

Valentino Rossi

#13. Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

Tina Brown

#14. With a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students

Gary Shteyngart

#15. The first year of the Boot Ride was an amazing experience. Seeing people come out from all over, ride and, most importantly, put on their boots, was an inspiration.

Theo Rossi

#16. I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.

Jim Evans

#17. Listening to him, I realized how long it had been since I'd felt like I had the world by the balls, how many quick birthdays had gone by since that first year in Europe when I was so ignorant and so confident that every splinter of luck made me feel like a roaring champion.

Hunter S. Thompson

#18. The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Shawn Mendes

#19. Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

Jim Henson

#20. So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Dustin Hoffman

#21. I remember the first job I ever had was working on 'Firefly,' and I was talking to Joss Whedon, and he was asking if I was going to Comic-Con. He called me a loser for not going that first year.

Michael McMillian

#22. I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.

Jennifer Tipton

#23. Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.

M.F.K. Fisher

#24. As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school.

Rolf Harris

#25. In an instant, all of his data, including every baby picture he had taken during his daughter's first year of life, were destroyed.

Marc Goodman

#26. I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be.

Jane McGonigal

#27. Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way.

Tre Cool

#28. A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.

Saul Gorn

#29. The thing to hold onto, though, during the tough first year, is that you can make a real and genuine difference to your children's lives. And at some point in the future they may look back and remember you as someone who really mattered to them. What other career could offer such a wonderful reward?

Sue Cowley

#30. I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?' 'Well, we have no mechanism to do it,' I was told.

Neil Abercrombie

#31. After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.

Noam Chomsky

#32. I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

Roald Hoffmann

#33. You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups ... Children are not the problem here ... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#34. The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

Rob Corddry

#35. Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.

Siri Hustvedt

#36. I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.

Daniel Wu

#37. Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.

Andrew Luck

#38. That dead feeling hits hard and permeates the first year. It comes back to test you often in the following years, but if you get through the first year, then you know about it. It will never have the power to defeat you again.

Natalie Goldberg

#39. I realized my predicament early in my First Year. We don't say "Freshman" or "Senior" etc. at UVA because Mr. Jefferson felt that education is a lifelong process

Tina Fey

#40. But put my body through a lot, you know, but it's the price for your body feeling this way for winning. Did I win? I didn't win a championship, but I've done a lot of good things in this first year back, and hopefully I can continue it.

LeBron James

#41. This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

Arthur Ashe

#42. Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

Deborah Smith

#43. During my first year as a pastor I performed funerals for 50 church members - and they were the wrong ones.

Roy Bell

#44. After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'

Blake Lively

#45. I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

Bill Fitch

#46. At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Jim Henson

#47. Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

Gianni Agnelli

#48. The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through ...

John Ashbery

#49. In seventeenth-century England, 150 out of every 1,000 newborns died during their first year, and a third of all children were dead before they reached fifteen.9 Today, only five out of 1,000 English babies die during their first year, and only seven out of 1,000 die before age fifteen.10

Yuval Noah Harari

#50. When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.

Ben Schwartz

#51. I feel like I've changed a lot since the London Games. I was really young, and it was my first year on the international stage. I've matured physically since then, and I've become stronger, and because of that, I've gained a lot of confidence.

Derek Drouin

#52. She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.

Gary Shteyngart

#53. During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.

Dan Webster

#54. The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

Magic Johnson

#55. When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.

Jeff Greene

#56. At the end of my first year, I realized I wanted to do more drama, so I actually started an extracurricular course outside of university. So I was at school all day writing, and in the evenings I'd go to drama school. So it was nonstop.

Penelope Mitchell

#57. I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.

Bo Bice

#58. If a relationship is on-and-off within the first year, that's an immediate sign you are wasting your time.

Sherry Argov

#59. I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That is where you work all the pieces out, and that means honing the characters' voices, setting that tone, finding your angle.

Jim Rash

#60. I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

Gabrielle Union

#61. High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

Kyle Chandler

#62. most accounts of the war, Missouri tends to wink out of existence after the first year, or makes periodic cameos as a sideshow of guerrilla warfare in which the brutality takes center stage rather than the military role of those brutalities within the wider conflict.

Mark A. Lause

#63. There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.

Evelyn Waugh

#64. My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.

Steve Aoki

#65. I started D.J.-ing my first year of college just for fun and to pay bills.

Harley Viera-Newton

#66. No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

Janet Evanovich

#67. Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

Nina Bawden

#68. That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

Dennis Eckersley

#69. You seem to be in unusually good spirits." "I do?" Tamas said. "I haven't said two words." Prime cleared his throat. "I can sense it about you. It's in the air. Like a first-year student who knows he's going to be every professor's favorite. It's annoying.

Brian McClellan

#70. So many of the major decisions that affect the entire future of your enterprise happen during its first year in business. In fact, most don't make it because they don't know how to get the resources they need to survive.

Jay Samit

#71. My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

Lewis Black

#72. In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.

Jane Harman

#73. In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.

George Stephen

#74. I think it's not uncommon for new television shows to spend certainly the first year, but without a doubt, like, the first eight or ten episodes, kind of figuring out what the show is.

Michael Spiller

#75. In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.

Allan Nairn

#76. Consumers do not buy one brand of soap, or coffee, or detergent. They have a repertory of four or five brands, and move from one to another. They almost never buy a brand which has not been admitted to their repertory during its first year on the market.

David Ogilvy

#77. When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.

Timothy Ferriss

#78. When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.

Clarence Thomas

#79. Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year.

Steven Magee

#80. In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.

Willie McCovey

#81. My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.

Sandra Dee

#82. Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.

Andrew Bogut

#83. I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

Tracy Morgan

#84. I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

Lee Tergesen

#85. I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Jeffrey Archer

#86. At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.

Padma Lakshmi

#87. We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

Betty Ford

#88. It's not funny. How would you like it if your balls fled in fear? My balls haven't been this frightened since I dove into the icy water at the Polar Bear Plunge my first year of high school.

K.C. Faelan

#89. My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

Carl Lewis

#90. I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

Mickey Rourke

#91. A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

Ali Smith

#92. I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.

Darren Star

#93. I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

Olivier Martinez

#94. The first year holds trauma unlike any other. The second year is a time of learning hard lessons, facing harsh realities, understanding that you, alone, are responsible for the life change you must accept, the new life you must develop.

Shirley Reeser Mcnally

#95. My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

Sara Blakely

#96. When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

Jane Smiley

#97. I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people.

Robin Williams

#98. As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Wayne Dyer

#99. Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

Rosanne Cash

#100. I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered there was something serious, mainly a matter of nerve and perhaps empathy, that stood in my way.

Barbara Kingsolver