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Firsts Quotes by John Green
- I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you…
- I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
- Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection…
- Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that…
- In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in…
- I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back…
- Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people…
- So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name…
- Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the…
- This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.
- Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good car. And we…
- But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice…
- Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot.…
- I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the…
- People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's…
- While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
- I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for…
- feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's…
- Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way,…
- Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always…
- She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the…
More Firsts Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong