All Quotes

For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.
‐‐ Christian Kane

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
‐‐ Alphonso Jackson

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
‐‐ Ferdinand Mount

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
‐‐ Richard J. Needham

For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
‐‐ Jack Whitehall

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.
‐‐ Eric Whitacre

For the first six years of his career, Sammy Sosa was one of the least patient players in the game. He could hit the long ball and steal a base, but he was undisciplined.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!
‐‐ Jay Leno

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.
‐‐ George Pataki

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
‐‐ Natalie Wood

For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
‐‐ Ildar Abdrazakov

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
‐‐ Patty Duke

For the first time I'm free to be myself.
‐‐ Ed Balls

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
‐‐ Mikheil Saakashvili

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.
‐‐ Rosanne Cash

For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.
‐‐ Treat Williams

For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling.
‐‐ Matt Bellamy

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.
‐‐ Eric C. Anderson

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
‐‐ Umberto Guidoni

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.
‐‐ Margaret Chan

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
‐‐ David Broder

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.
‐‐ June Allyson

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.
‐‐ Amanda Seyfried

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.
‐‐ Lucy Lawless

For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale before, so I knew it would be quite blubbery. It was delicious. I loved it. It was smoked, so it had a lovely kind of tangy taste to it. We had it a couple of nights. I was won over. It was very yummy.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

For the first time in my life, I want the right to get married. I've met somebody who meets the criteria of what I've always imagined in and wanted from a partner - someone to marry and to bring children into the world with.
‐‐ Kyan Douglas

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
‐‐ Bill Moyers

For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
‐‐ Lalu Prasad Yadav

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
‐‐ Hubert H. Humphrey

For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.
‐‐ Dave Sim

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
‐‐ Eric S. Raymond

For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.
‐‐ Ridley Pearson

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
‐‐ Tim Yeo

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.
‐‐ Juan Williams

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
‐‐ Carl Bernstein

For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
‐‐ Madeleine Stowe

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
‐‐ Agnes Smedley

For the first years of my life, I went to school in Rhodesia. My memory of living in the townships is that they were actually really happy places.
‐‐ Petina Gappah

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.
‐‐ John M. McHugh

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.
‐‐ Karl Lehmann