First Time Quotes
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But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
Erich Maria Remarque -
The first time I died I didn’t like it so I came back.
Johnny Hallyday
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
Loretta Lynn -
Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own...
Billy Joe Shaver -
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud -
One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.
Edmondo De Amicis -
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 -
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 -
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.
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Everybody has to learn for the first time.
Joshua Lederberg -
It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.
Charles Dickens -
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 -
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same.
Lauren Bacall