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Quotes About Milestone

Rocky Kolb has put it, "To compare the accomplishment of Newton to that of the first manned flight, one would have to imagine Orville and Wilbur Wright pulling up on the sands of Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, behind the controls of a modern jetliner and flying off to New York."[*]
~ Sean Carroll
Down to the 23rd page of double dutch!
~ Sharon M. Draper
This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
~ Paul McCartney
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
~ Peter Quennell
To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing!
~ Rachel Weisz
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
~ Richard Yates
The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.
~ Hillary Clinton
I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated, ' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
~ Nadia Comaneci
The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.
~ Sterling K. Brown
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
~ Orville Wright
We didn't come this far just to come this far
~ Matthew Reilly
A womb-to-grave influence over every aspect of a person's life, each milestone dependent solely on adherence to church doctrine.
~ Steve Berry
The first transatlantic line that enabled ordinary citizens to call between North America and Europe was laid only in 1956.
~ Steven Johnson
All right, Jeffy. Here are some big-boy pants. Put 'em on and crank out fifty miles for me. By the way, the iPod only has one playlist on it. Press play when you leave the starting line, okay?
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey
~ Eugen Herrigel
I had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.
~ Lewis Capaldi
I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
~ Christina Aguilera
Our first console game was 'RPM Racing.' We started and released that project in that same year we founded the company, 1991.
~ Michael Morhaime
In 2015 we released our first ever. It was our first album, but it was also our first original album.
~ Mitch Grassi
Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.
~ Nicole Kidman
I know I'm not the first one or the last one. But still to play 1,000 NBA games is pretty remarkable and pretty cool.
~ Zaza Pachulia
No matter where I end up in terms of wickets or the number of matches that I play, I think people will always remember me taking 10 wickets. So it is something that is always going to be special for me and for Indian cricket.
~ Anil Kumble
That's what everybody remembers, the first time they beat their dad.
~ Justin Thomas
We had a great run on 'Reno' - 87 episodes and a movie. Not too shabby.
~ Robert Ben Garant