Their First Quotes
204 Their First quotes by 183 unique authors
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The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.
— E. M. Forster
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Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their…
— George Eliot
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Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course…
— Laura Dave
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Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first…
— Tamora Pierce
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Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your…
— Joss Whedon
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Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and…
— Jay-Z
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These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
— George R. R. Martin
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She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?
— Melissa Marr
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Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read…
— Richard Peck
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Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is…
— David Levithan
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Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
— John C. Maxwell
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These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will…
— Rainbow Rowell
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Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat…
— Paullina Simons
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There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it…
— Neil Gaiman
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No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.
— Hugh Miller
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I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family,…
— Nile Rodgers
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Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing…
— Paul Merton
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When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western…
— Arne Glimcher
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records,…
— Ian Anderson
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By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for…
— Sal Albanese
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