Firsts Quotes - Page 27

• If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

  Marilyn Manson

  Death, Suicide, Song

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• "It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't." What was he afraid of? "Everything. It's just a general all-round arggghhh. It's fearfulness and anxiety." He added, "For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop."

  Robin Williams

  Suicide, Lying, Thinking

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• If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Military, Marine

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• To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
  For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
  Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
  Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
  Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
  In process of the seasons have I seen,
  Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
  Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Eye

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

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• The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shifting of the center of gravity of the other person. The first thing that is taught is how to fall down without being hurt, that alone is worth the price of admission and ought to be taught in all our gyms.

  John Dewey

  Hurt, Fall, Law

  John Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey (1921). “Letters from China and Japan”

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• The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I’m tired.

  Susan Orlean

  Morning, Tired, Thinking

  "Perchance to Dream" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2010.

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• We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel upon the neck of the vanquished. The wonder of Good Friday is that the victor lies vanquished by the vanquished one. We have to look deeper into the very heart and essence of things before we can see how real the victory is that thus hides itself under the guise of defeat.

  Phillips Brooks

  Friday, Real, Lying

  "Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full and in Brief, Suggestive Thoughts, and Poetry, Relating to Holy Days and Holidays". Book by Edward Mark Deems (p. 150), 1902.

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• All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.

  Drake

  Taken, Humble, Fans

  Song: The Calm, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.

  Drake

  Humble, Past, Thinking

  Song: Lust For Life

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• First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Know Yourself, Knows

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• Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

  Solon

  Good Life, Submit

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by C. D. Yonge, ("Solon"), sect. 12, (p. 29), 1853.

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• The first duty of life is to live.

  Burt Lancaster

  Good Life, Life Is, Duty

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• We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

  Sidney Hillman

  Children, Struggle, Economic Inequality

  The New Republic, Volume 115, p. 379, 1946.

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• Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Life, Dream, Writing

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• At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Dream, Sweet

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• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

  Charles Darwin

  Flower, Cat, Humble

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• There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Alcohol, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.199, Penguin

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• Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Drinking

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Delight, Plant

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• How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

  W. C. Fields

  Beer, Devil, Encounters

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• So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."

  Alistair Cooke

  Morning, Golf, Player

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• Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Mind, Four

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• First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

  Dean Lombardi

  Sports, Hockey, Guy

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• The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

  Sally Ride

  Bad Ass, Space, Expectations

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• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

  Gore Vidal

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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