First Quotes
On beginnings, and what a 'first' really changes.
The quotes gathered here treat 'first' loosely: a rookie athlete crediting the teammates who set the tone early, a filmmaker's take on what should scare an audience right away, and a physicist weighing what can and can't be known first. If early relationships resonate, see our First Love.
I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but it grew beyond the category.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.
I call ‘Mukkathe Penne' my first emotional hit because it's the kind of song that goes straight into the hearts of the audience.
I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.
I've kept evolving the character. At first, you hated Goldust with a passion, then you laughed with him.
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
I've learned how to exist and get work done when you're exhausted. I've finally gotten to that level, because at first I had no idea how I was going to do it.
My wife is from Brighton so I got a bit of stick for going to Palace even though in my first three-and-a-half years at Brighton I didn't actually face them. So I don't think I completely understood the rivalry.
As a teenager, I was in the Carlisle schoolboy scheme and while I was excited to join at first, I look back on it as a tough few years.
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
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One quote pushes past personal firsts into a civic claim about equal standing under the constitution, which broadens the theme beyond simple nostalgia. Related pages include First Impression and First Step.
