For The First Time Quotes

#1. You can't have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That's the way this works.

Byron Katie

#2. With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

Jared Diamond

#3. Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty ... A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power. For the first time he honestly wished he could work miracles.

Toni Morrison

#4. When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.

Rajneesh

#5. When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

Danica McKellar

#6. When I had my girls, I knew what magic felt like for the first time. I had created people who didn't exist before. Now I write for the same reason. Creating people and their life's stories through my writing is as close to magic as I'll ever get again.

Dori Ann Dupre

#7. And I thought -not for the first time- what a true and simple pleasure it was, to be inside and sated when the cold and the stalkless dark spread out across the world.

Kate Morton

#8. Until Elle.
I'd never known complete perfection until I made love to her for the first time. Every touch, kiss, stroke, or caress made was all in a need to show her how much I cared. How much I loved her.

Angela McPherson

#9. The game against the Vikings back in my second year stands out. It was kind of a turnaround for us. It allowed us to make a run at the playoffs for the first time in quite a while. The memories are so many it's hard to pin one down.

Drew Bledsoe

#10. My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

Natalie Dormer

#11. This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

Queen Elizabeth II

#12. For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Lauren Oliver

#13. But I think for the first time in my life, something has mattered enough for me to take a chance. I'm way more terrified of losing you than I ever could be of trying and failing.

Penelope Ward

#14. Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

Richard Powers

#15. I'm a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land.

E.K. Blair

#16. That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

Bill Condon

#17. Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. He wanted her to acknowledge that it was she who had bed him the night they gave themselves to each other. That his broken spirit and hers had created rather than destroyed something for the first time in their wretched lives.

Melina Marchetta

#19. He ran his fingers along the edge of my jaw. You're my north star, Kilani. Being near you makes my heart, my soul, and my wolf whole for the first time in my life.

Lisa Kessler

#20. For the first time in our lives, I'm somewhere she can't find, and I don't have the map to give her that leads to me.

Jandy Nelson

#21. I catch myself smiling, and realize that, for the first time since her death, her memory makes me happy, not sad. And that's just the way she'd want it, the woman who loved to laugh.

Lori Nelson Spielman

#22. I'm a film geek man. I love toys. I love everything in filmmaking, so for me to just be around this technology is just so cool to watch it being used for the first time, some of the stuff.

Zach Braff

#23. He smiles at me, and for the first time I notice how blue his eyes are- like, bright-shy blue.

Jennifer Niven

#24. There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief ... is the weight of a sleeping child.

Anne Michaels

#25. For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

Ildar Abdrazakov

#26. For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.

Abbi Glines

#27. As the fireworks began to illuminate the sky above them, Blake and Veronica made love for the first time on Hideaway Hill.

Elle A. Rose

#28. And I understand, for the first time, that I have the power to destroy everything.

Tahereh Mafi

#29. Cody made a pot of coffee and heated water for Rosetta's tea. He needed the time alone to process what Wilkes had said. For the first time in his career, he wished he wasn't a cop. The evidence pointed to Catherine, and yet his heart told him that wasn't possible. He wanted to listen to his heart.

Linda S. Prather

#30. It all ended with my eyes meeting yours for the first time and the sudden, extreme feeling of expectation. And now, how can I miss what has never existed.

Pleasefindthis

#31. When the moon comes up, I go down For the first time There's a garden deep, deep in my heart But it's blossomed for the last time

Happy Rhodes

#32. For the first time, I was glad that Finn had badgered me into buying the Aston, because the car purred into high gear with no visible effort and hugged the road better than a creepy old uncle at Christmas, not wanting to let go of his pretty young relatives.

Jennifer Estep

#33. Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

John Coltrane

#34. Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

Arabella Weir

#35. You hate me don't you? You must hate me. I can't help it. I'm broken."
Trent squeezes me close to him. "I don't hate you. I could never hate you. Give me your heart, Kacey. I'll take everything that comes with it." I start to cry. Uncotrollably, for the first time in four year.

K.A. Tucker

#36. Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Charles Kettering

#37. I have finally reverted the publishing rights for my Cocoon Trilogy back to me and, for the first time, e-published the final book - Butterfly: Tomorrow's Children. Cocoon, the movie and the book, was only the beginning.

David Saperstein

#38. With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#39. One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

Chrissie Hynde

#40. I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession which must have been painful to her, that it was a first step down from the ideal she had formed for me, and that for the first time she, with all her courage, had to confess herself beaten.

Marcel Proust

#41. As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

Buffy Andrews

#42. When I look at her, it's like when I was in seventh grade and fell in love for the first time, where it's debilitating. That's available 24/7 if I want, which is amazing.

Dax Shepard

#43. When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them, you're meeting their representative.

Chris Rock

#44. She'd let me in, and for the first time, I actually wanted to do the same, to tell someone the truth. That I wasn't normal. That I wasn't human.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#45. I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.

Nicolas Cage

#46. Yeah. Like when someone doesn't know their vision isn't perfect. They think they can see fine. But the moment they put those glasses on for the first time, they see everything so clearly, so vivid. They realize how much detail and beauty they've been missing. That's Hetch. He's my glasses.

River Savage

#47. Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#48. Red was smiling back at me. "Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating for the first time in a month."
I couldn't deny it. So I didn't.

Eoin Colfer

#49. For the first time in a long time, connection had replaced connectedness. I'd never seen anything like it before, not on this scale. The effervescent pulse of human interaction. People turning to faces instead of screens. It was a splendor of its own.

Lauren Miller

#50. What I remember most is the searing sensation of looking into her eyes for the first time,eyes that would hunt me for the rest of my life

Jonathan Hull

#51. I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us ... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went, 'Wow, it's not me!'

Lewis Black

#52. Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

Ron Rash

#53. For the first time in her life she was proud of her size, proud of her strength, even proud of her oddly boyish face. She could see interest, even admiration in the faces of many of the girls.

Ann Bannon

#54. His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

Dejan Stojanovic

#55. DRACO looks up at HARRY, and for the first time- at the bottom of this dreadful pit- they look at each other as friends.

J.K. Rowling

#56. They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Donald O'Connor

#57. It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy.

Sheila E.

#58. For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

Hermann Hesse

#59. For the first time you will have some real democracy in the world. What exists now as democracy is not democracy - it is mobocracy.

Osho

#60. (Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

Richard Gere

#61. hey its Uberunicorn here, im uploading my accountant for the first time! :D yay! im only uploading the books ive read in a short time: jan-dec, so i might not have so many books online j8st yet... - Uberunicorn, this one called cherub the recruit! Y X 3!!!

Robert Muchamore

#62. I'm sure you're used to hearing that when people get to Long Island for the first time, it's a bit of a shock to the system. But I found Long Island people very endearing.

Katie Nolan

#63. We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.

J. D. Bernal

#64. It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

Ken Jennings

#65. The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.

Pierre Boulez

#66. The women on that list are amazing, so to be on it for the first time and have this position is crazy. I'm not one to walk around and strut like Miss Thing, so I'm pretty humbled.

Marisa Miller

#67. This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

James Baker

#68. For the first time in a decade I felt a voice rising from deep inside my soul. It cried out 'what will you be today?' and I heard 'relentless' booming from the rafters inside an old gym as Sami and a group of young men chased dreams and trophies while their fathers went to war.

Tucker Elliot

#69. I remember the way Romero had looked at me at our Christmas party. as if he saw me for the first time, really saw me as a woman and not just a stupid child.

Cora Reilly

#70. He saw the Queen and saw her for the first time with the mask of friendship removed, a figure suddenly as ruthless and terrible as ever her father had been ... All their dazzling intimacy was an illusion, a mere straw in the wind, for in the last resort he was but a subject, as her mother had been.

Susan Kay

#71. I can't help laughing, really laughing, for the first time in months. Peeta just shakes his head like I've lost my mind - and maybe I have, a little.

Suzanne Collins

#72. Forever, I echo, and for the first time, I know that forever is a promise I can keep. I will love her forever, until the world crumbles and this memory is the only thing keeping me sane.

Stacey Jay

#73. We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.

Lesley Gore

#74. I remember what it felt like to fall in love for the first time. You think you'll never love like that again. But you do.

Jenny Han

#75. Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#76. For the first time, I understood reality could be so much lovelier than dreams.

Christine Pope

#77. For the first time I saw Death as somebody to fear instead of the gangly sack of bones who ate all of my Cheetos and saved over my games on the Playstation.

Mercedes M. Yardley

#78. I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Keith Miller

#79. You see something for the first time, you experience something for the first time, you feel something for the first time, it's much harder. I think that it's painful, but at the same time I think it should be the way to experience the world.

Lukas Moodysson

#80. For the first time all day I felt safe.
Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#81. I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.

Gary Reilly

#82. Sadly, I have to admit, my timing sucks. Not the best - or most romantic - idea to tell your woman "I love you" for the first time whilst impaling the crap out of her.

Jacquelyn Ayres

#83. Whether it is because the faith which creates has ceased to exist in me, or because reality takes shape in the memory alone, the flowers that people show me nowadays for the first time never seem to me to be true flowers.

Marcel Proust

#84. Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

John Lothrop Motley

#85. We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

Romano Prodi

#86. Too often, teachers assume that they are introducing a book or concept to students for the first time. In fact, many units are repeated over the course of a student's K-12 experience.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#87. It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

Bill Brandt

#88. I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it. So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it.

Laila Ali

#89. And for the first time in a long, long time, Karou felt the truth of it. Her heart was not wrong.

Laini Taylor

#90. And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell that smells like the raw body of America itself because it washes it up.

Jack Kerouac

#91. You're lucky. You're getting this over with now. You only fall in love for the first time once."
"That's very Taylor Swift of you," I say.

Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

#92. Lindbergh knew perfectly well what modern bombs could do to cities but, seeing Nazi Germany for the first time, the idea of a new and very dangerous war became real to him.

Winston Groom

#93. I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.

Richard Eyre

#94. I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

Joe Sakic

#95. We were all over each other in the super-friendly way of puppies, or spouses meeting for the first time after one of them has undergone a close brush with death.

George Saunders

#96. For the first time, vague doubts assaulted me, the shattering suspicion that for all pleasure and joy in life we had to pay ... I repel fear. If I had to pay I would pay, after all, the memory of ecstasy while pungisse its pain could never be erased.

Frank Harris

#97. By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

Martin Filler

#98. At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

Jane Pauley

#99. For the first time Topper's established routine of living gave place to a disorderly desire to live.

Thorne Smith

#100. To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

Jan Struther