Quotes About First

He read and reread 'Ulysses'. He looked back at Amy. They were the first beautiful thing I ever knew, Dorrigo Evans said.

Our parents' lives, even those enfolded in obscurity, offer us our first, strong assurance that human events have consequence. Here we are, after all.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

Though sometimes, first love cauterises the heart, and all any searcher will find thereafter is scar tissue.

And first love always happens in the overwhelming first person. How can it not? Also, in the overwhelming present tense. It takes us time to realise that there are other persons, and other tenses.

marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first.

For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out—perhaps especially when it doesn't work out—promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life. And though subsequent years might alter this view, until some of us give up on it altogether, when love first strikes, there's nothing like it, is there? Agreed?

First love fixes a life for ever: this much I have discovered over the years. It may not outrank subsequent loves, but they will always be affected by its existence. It may serve as model, or as counterexample. It may overshadow subsequent loves; on the other hand, it can make them easier, better. Though sometimes, first love cauterizes the heart, and all any searcher will find thereafter is scar tissue.

Kantor's Andersonville," she said, adding, "It's a first edition.

I had a coconut on the way, which was another first for me. A drink and food all in one. It didn't look like the normal coconuts you win at fairgrounds. There was no hair on it. I don't know if that's how they grow here or if it's that Brazilians hate hair on anything and they've waxed them.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.

We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

A sucker has no business with money in the first place.

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.