Firsts Quotes - Page 2

• Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

  Gerard Way

  Different, Band, Lockers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever.

  Rosemary Rogers

  Missing Someone, First Love, Love Is

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• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Science

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• In war, truth is the first casualty.

  Aeschylus

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• A first love always occupies a special place.

  Lee Konitz

  First Love, Special, Love Always

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• I know they say the first love is the sweetest but that first cut is the deepest

  Drake

  Anniversary, Broken Heart, Humble

  Song: Karaoke, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial one in any love story.

  Emil Ludwig

  Kissing, Decision, First Kiss

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• The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Time, Second Chance

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.

  Prince Charles

  Baby, Unique, People

  "Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to baby boy, third in line to the throne" by Caroline Davies and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, College, Creative

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Sep 26, 2012

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• Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Military, Marine, Usmc

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• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Confused, Curiosity

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2204, e-artnow

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• There's no love like the first.

  Nicholas Sparks

  First Love, Time And Love, No Love

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• First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.

  Branislav Nusic

  First Love, Love Is, Love At First Sight

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• There is no such thing as a publishable first draft.

  William Targ

  William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”

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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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  The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Travel, Passion

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.103

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• The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Henrietta Temple: A Love Story".

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• The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Smile, Dream, Baby

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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