First Day Quotes

• What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Childhood
  • Birthday
  • First Day

• The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And Woody Allen gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Freedom
  • Direction
  • First Day

• This is just the first day; you’ll get used to it. The rewards will come later, from the kids themselves–and from the unlikeliest ones.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Kids
  • Rewards
  • First Day

• All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Song
  • Lips
  • First Day

• On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Values
  • Christianity
  • Revenge

• Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Makeup
  • Director
  • Understood