First Time Quotes
2420 quotes by 1813 authors
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The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.
— Margot Adler
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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for…
— Richard Adams
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What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or…
— Marina Keegan
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For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
— Thabo Mbeki
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Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice.…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Hal Linden
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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
— Pete Rose
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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps,…
— Julian Barnes
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The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the…
— Henry Adams
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I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right…
— Orson Scott Card
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I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was…
— George Orwell
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What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your…
— Woody Allen
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The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are…
— Pauline Kael
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy,…
— Karl Marx
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There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is…
— Sherwood Anderson
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If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of…
— Mike Huckabee
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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…
— James Baker
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like…
— Studs Terkel
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For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies
— June Allyson
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