First Time Quotes

• No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

  James A. Baldwin

  Time, Firsts, Happens

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

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• You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

  Jack Canfield

  Baby, Positivity, Perfect

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• If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

  Louise Hay

  Children, Firsts, Walks

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• "It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

  Sarah Dessen

  Long, Firsts, Said

  "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1999.

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• And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.

  Alexandra Potter

  Coffee, Home, Past

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• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Yoga, Mean

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

  Donald Miller

  Dream, Selfish, Mean

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

  Robert Fulghum

  Firsts, Living My Life, Wells

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.119, Ivy Books

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• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Good Morning, Children, Hypocrite

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.423, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

  Groucho Marx

  Sex, Funny Relationship, Goggles

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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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• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Inspiring, Success

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• I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Wind, Alex

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Writing, Vision

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

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• For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Art, Struggle

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

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• The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

  Brian Andreas

  Laughter, Wind, Wings

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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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• 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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• 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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• When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

  Chris Rock

  Firsts, Meetings, Representatives

  "'It's the White BET Awards!' Chris Rock's funniest jokes ahead of his Oscars hosting stint". www.mirror.co.uk. February 28, 2016.

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• Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

  Goldie Hawn

  Eye, Looks, May

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2006.

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• People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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