Their First Quotes
204 quotes by 186 authors
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed…
— Teresa of Avila
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You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that's what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or…
— Luke Bryan
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my…
— J. R. Martinez
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A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.
— Ralph Kiner
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If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they…
— Richard Sibbes
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It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the…
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
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I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.
— Jessica Alba
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When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.
— Charles Spurgeon
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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
— Georges Bernanos
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling…
— John Mason Brown
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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that…
— James Russell Lowell
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Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.
— Mary Robinson
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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
— Aristotle
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I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work,…
— Steve Ballmer
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Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have…
— Martin O'Malley
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Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview…
— Dan Rather
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They had so much rain in New York that a lot of the cabbies had their first shower in years.
— Jay Leno
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