Top 100 Quotes About The First Time
#1. In that moment, I understood implicitly what my mom had meant. That was the moment I felt my heart smile for the first time.
Nicola Haken
#2. Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore
#3. This is the deal, Angel. You ... ran ... away from me. And I tasted regret for the first time in my life. And that didn't sting, it fuckin' killed.
Kristen Ashley
#4. I love the fact that there's an evolution in your understanding and the difference between the first time you play the role and last time you play the role - there's an incredible arc and that's wonderful.
Audrey Tautou
#5. Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering
#6. He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart
Julia Quinn
#7. Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
Mary Balogh
#8. The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace.
Eileen Myles
#9. I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember - it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.
James Beard
#10. I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
Hal Linden
#11. For the first time, Ax saw that there could be strength in serenity, and steel beneath stillness.
Sean Williams
#12. You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.
Andy Partridge
#13. e had the strangest feeling come over him, which he'd never before known. Like he was meeting his best friend, for the first time. It was recognition mixed with relief...but also some amount of joy. Like, 'Oh, there you are! It's so great to meet you finally! I've missed you!
Elizabeth Gannon
#14. When we recognise that reflective processes are no more outside the causal net than unreflective processes, and that they are bound by similar constraints, we may come to understand the nature of reflection for the first time.
Hilary Kornblith
#15. The first time we met he shot me in the head with an electric staple gun, but our relationship has evolved in the subsequent months.
Ben H. Winters
#16. I feel a surge of hope for the first time in days. "Haeden," I breathe, looking over at him. "What if we had our khuis removed to get out of the resonance?
Ruby Dixon
#17. We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.
Vladimir Putin
#18. The first time we made love, I wasn't sober, and you told me you loved me over and over.
Bif Naked
#19. A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Thomas Fuller
#20. Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.
Winifred Gallagher
#21. The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable.
Molly Crabapple
#22. Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.
Rob Zombie
#23. Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
Jack London
#24. It never really interested me in the past but, for the first time, I wanted to make a pop record. I thought a good way of doing it would be to make songs that didn't really make sense to me as songs; songs that I couldn't just sit down and play in front of someone and then get them to play over it.
Dan Bejar
#25. This ( ... ) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.
Jack Kevorkian
#26. Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that?
David Mitchell
#27. I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.
Rinko Kikuchi
#28. Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.
Gary Gulman
#29. The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
Will Champion
#30. How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#31. My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.
Michael Cerveris
#32. The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.
Bear Bryant
#33. We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#34. When I first saw you, I saw love
And the first time you touched me, I felt love
And after all this time,
You're still the one I love.
Shania Twain
#35. 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
#36. Walking into the great hall for the first time was absolutely incredible - all these effects with all the candles floating in the air, all lit and everything, food on the table, all the flambeaus were lit - it was just incredible, it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.
Rupert Grint
#37. When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.
Jon Favreau
#38. I kiss her for way too long at the door, and not for the first time, I wish that I could stay with her, to help chase those dark clouds away.
Siobhan Davis
#39. The possibility to love another scared me; terrified me actually. Being a free spirit, apart of me is most alive when roaming, than I became a mother and for the first time I felt my heart live outside my body and that's the moment his laughter became my medicine.
Nikki Rowe
#40. I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.
Bone Crusher
#41. Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.
Cameron Stracher
#42. For the first time, Cupid's gaze seemed sympathetic. "Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy." His voice sounded smaller, much more human. "Sometimes it makes you incredible sad. But at least you've faced it now. That's the only way to conquer me.
Rick Riordan
#43. Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.
The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
Louis Kahn
#44. When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
Rajneesh
#45. This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.
Jay Asher
#46. The first time I met you, I fell in love with you there and then, but you didn't notice me. Then you stood me up. And then I met you again and I hated you. Well, I tried to hated you, but then when you cleaned up after Welly ... I fell in love with you all over again.
Alexandra Potter
#47. The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war.
Robert Dallek
#48. My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.
Rudy Giuliani
#49. Last night with Rhys. It was ... the first time in years that I felt so loved. For what I am, for my faults and my virtues, for my past and my future. I haven't had that with a man since ... since I had it with you. And I never expected to have it again.
Elizabeth George
#50. I have loved your daughter from the first time I saw her. We were young. I had no clue what love was, but over the years she has never left my heart. I know with all that I am, I can make her happy."
The lord chuckled, "I believe so too, son. Now all you have to do is convince my daughter.
Julia Mills
#51. If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.
Lynda Resnick
#52. I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.
David Mackay
#53. Just so we're clear, I made love with you the first time because I wanted you more than I wanted breath. That's the same reason I did the second time, too. And the reason I'll do it every chance I get.
Cynthia Eden
#54. This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.
Lukas Haas
#55. It occurs to me, not for the first time, that things change whether you're around to notice them or not.
Katie Cotugno
#56. Never in my life have I been captivated by by anybody onscreen the way I was when I saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time. She's everything a woman should be.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#57. He said, looking down at her body, "Dagny, what a magnificent waste!"
She had to turn and escape. She felt herself blushing, for the first time in years: blushing because she knew suddenly that the sentence named what she had felt all evening.
Ayn Rand
#58. Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible
Sarah Dessen
#59. For the first time ever, I'd managed a great parting line and a grand exit. And it still felt like crap.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#60. Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around
Penn Jillette
#61. It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual.
Jacques Barzun
#62. The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.
Raymond Chandler
#63. For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance," ... "By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.
Jacques Chirac
#64. For the first time in six months, she wasn't thinking of her own misery. She was thinking of others - and how to make their misery worse.
G.A. Aiken
#65. There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
James Henry Breasted
#66. Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.
Ed Helms
#67. It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.
Hassan Nasrallah
#68. The first time, the noise that came out of the AK didn't sound like a gunshot. It sounded like a laugh.
Sara Novic
#69. The challenge for me is his size because, for the first time in my career, I'll be meeting an opponent who is taller than me and has a longer reach.
Wladimir Klitschko
#70. You didn't understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.
Sarah Hall
#71. From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!
Beeban Kidron
#72. I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
Jean-Luc Godard
#74. Old Nan used to tell stories about knights and their ladies who would sleep in a single bed with a blade between them for honor's sake, but he thought this must be the first time where a direwolf took the place of the sword.
George R R Martin
#75. And I wonder if Beethoven held his breath
the first time his fingers touched the keys
the same way a soldier holds his breath
the first time his finger clicks the trigger.
We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
Andrea Gibson
#76. I'll see you tomorrow,' I finally said.
'Tomorrow,' you echoed. We hung up without either of us saying 'I love you' for the first time since we'd first said it. At that moment the word TOMORROW meant the same thing. Nothing else needed to be said.
Trevor Shane
#77. It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.
Jacob Ruppert
#78. His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
Red Skelton
#79. I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.
Bruce Dern
#80. It struck me, not for the first time, that there seemed to be more places in Australia for tourists to go than there were tourists to fill them. At
Bill Bryson
#81. It was this: this moment and no other moment, and for the first time that Gansey could remember, he knew what it would feel like to be present in his own life.
Maggie Stiefvater
#82. Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.
Leonard Little
#83. When the Earth was last four degrees warmer, there was no ice at either pole. Global warming of this magnitude would eventually leave the whole planet without ice for the first time in nearly 40 million years.
Mark Lynas
#84. I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I'm really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.
Ewan McGregor
#85. When the Holy Father passed away in 2005, Laura, Dad, Bill Clinton, and I flew together to his funeral in Rome. It was the first time an American president had attended the funeral of a pope, let alone brought two of his predecessors.
George W. Bush
#86. And for the first time I looked into his eyes. They were blue, not light blue, but a darker blue. Not so dark as sapphire blue, not so bright as china blue. They were romantically blue. Lyrically blue. They swam and I swam in them.
Stephen Fry
#87. Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.
Jon Krakauer
#88. This is the first time I'm meeting your dad and your brothers ... all at the same time ... and you want me to calm down?" I said, climbing onto his bike behind him.
He angled his neck, touching my cheek as he kissed me. "They're going to love you, just like I do.
Jamie McGuire
#89. As long as they were together, they could face anything. For the first time in a long time, she didn't feel alone - and she knew he didn't either.
Katie Reus
#90. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
Bill Bryson
#91. I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#92. And for the first time in his life Peter understood what the opposite of lost was: that it had nothing to do with maps or directions or staying on course; that it was, in fact, nothing more than being found.
Jennifer E. Smith
#93. Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you've given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it's the first time they've internalized it.
David M. Cote
#94. I remember the first time I drove mum's car. We just went to a car park near my house, and it actually wasn't too bad. I felt quite confident straight away.
Melissa Breen
#95. It's hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life.
Sarah Noffke
#96. And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
Anton Chekhov
#97. I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.
Mia Couto
#98. I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.
Demian Bichir
#99. When I come over the top of the dune I see the ocean and I feel like I'm seeing it for the first time.
Today it's blue, straight and simple. Raw blue.
Kirsty Eagar
#100. Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly
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