Firsts Quotes - Page 3

• I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Airplane, Dark, Islands

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• Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Inspirational, Baseball, Fathers Day

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• She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

  James Weldon Johnson

  First Love, Boys

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• You have to be odd to be number one.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Unique, Numbers

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• Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Men, Comfort

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.168, Penguin

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• Here's to many more firsts and many more great memories.

  Christine Feehan

  Memories, Great Memories, Firsts And Lasts

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.118, Penguin

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• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  First Love, Sight, Cynical

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.

  Curtis Stone

  Coffee, Home, Melbourne

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• Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Life, Women, Acceptance

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• I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet.

  Ilona Andrews

  Yellow, Office, Boss

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.89, Penguin

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• The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Husband, Politics, Servant

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• The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Men

  "Two Society Comedies".

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• No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Morning, World

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leadership, Needs, Needs Of Others

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• Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

  Graeme Simsion

  Father, Men, Forever

  Graeme Simsion (2013). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

  John Updike

  Basketball, Matter, Kind

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 02, 2016

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• What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.

  Ron Rash

  Grief, Losing Someone, Tree

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• That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Stars, Children, Firefly

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.176, Feiwel & Friends

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• Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Soulmate, Night

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• An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Regret, Past, Compassion

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• p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Sight, Doors

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• First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Dad, Needs, Want

  "Betrayals". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.

  Craig Ferguson

  Fall, Heroin, My Friends

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