First Time Quotes

• I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Picture

• The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Time
  • Firsts
  • Littles

• It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

  

  Phil Crosby
  • Job
  • First Time
  • Cheaper

• You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Lesson
  • Joyous

• He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • World
  • River
  • Mountains

• At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Learn
  • Mystery
  • Doctrine

• My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Camera
  • Steven Spielberg
  • War Horse

• One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

  

  Edmondo De Amicis
  • Paris
  • First Time

• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Person
  • Angry
  • Civilization

• It felt like family from the first time we talked.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Family
  • First Time
  • From

• I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Life
  • Time
  • First Time

• When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Band
  • First Time
  • Pixies

• From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.

  

  Regina Brett
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own...

  

  Billy Joe Shaver
  • Devil
  • First Time
  • Second Time

• Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Peace
  • Germany
  • Frontiers

• I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Play
  • Jealous
  • First Time

• People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remember going out to dinner with my mom afterward and reading the souvenir program like crazy!

  

  Erich Bergen
  • Memories
  • First Time
  • Broadway Show

• There are so many great golfers out on tour now. Just take a look at how many first-time winners we've had this year, ... You can't just think of Annika as the biggest challenge anymore though you still need to be mindful when she's out there.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Tour
  • Winners
  • Golfers

• It's great to be back. I have been looking forward to coming to Bristol probably for the first time in my career.

  

  Chad Knaus
  • Career
  • Back
  • Bristol

• I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Stars
  • First Time
  • Night Sky

• Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Future
  • Speaking
  • First Time

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