First Words Quotes
30 quotes by 30 authors
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It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
— Sylvia Plath
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First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
— Alexander Graham Bell
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If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part…
— N.K. Jemisin
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?
— Neil Armstrong
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When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.
— Leon Brown
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Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that…
— Phil Jackson
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He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed…
— Chaim Weizmann
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There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But…
— Stanley Donen
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I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the…
— Thomas A. Edison
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TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and…
— Tony Parsons
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If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing…
— Cornelia Funke
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My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one…
— Stephen Fry
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
— Beatrix Potter
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An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good.…
— Haruki Murakami
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It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Now that was informative" were her first words. "Catherine, you never told me that no matter how many times you sliced something off a vampire,…
— Jeaniene Frost
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You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she?…
— Patrick Ness
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Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same…
— Khaled Hosseini
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