“On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.” WorldFirstsArtistFeetFiguresMajorsFirst TimePerformancesCornersHallsConcertsAvenuesCarnegieCarnegie HallTchaikovsky Book:Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry Source: Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry
“It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.” PeopleKnowsFirstsDifferentReasonFeetDirectorsFirst TimeI RealizedSomething New Author:Jess Weixler
“A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.” FirstsMaySaidFeetLandFirst TimeEnglishmen Author:Vilhjalmur Stefansson
“From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.” FirstsI CanTodayAmericaSpiritFeetLandPossibilityOfficeFirst TimeWindowEightGoldenImmigrantsGrandparentBostonLimitlessHarborsStairsGreat GrandparentsLimitless Possibilities Author:Edward Kennedy
“The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.” IfsFirstsUnitedMillionsAirFeetFirst TimeTwentiesPopulationShouldersKingdomsSixtyUnited Kingdom Author:Eddie Mair
“This is the first time I've been in a WTA final so it's really great to make it here in Auckland. I'm so tired I can't stand on my feet any more. Today the key was to run and run and finally I put a lot of pressure on her and she started to miss on the big points.” FirstsI CanBigsRunningTodayFeetMissingKeysFirst TimePressureTiredFinalsReally Great Author:Marion Bartoli
“The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.” PeopleWorldFirstsWellsHas BeensWarWholeRunningKidsAmericaLeftWhitePoorClassIssuesFeetEconomicFirst TimeEuropeIndiaWestConservativeBritainRacistWorking ClassVirginiaConcentratingSexistPhonyWest VirginiaBare FeetDisenfranchisedEconomic Issues Author:Irvine Welsh
“Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.” WorldFirstsTodayChristFeetLandFirst TimeFairsBelovedSoilRomePortionsPreachingGiftedPaganBishopsVineyards Author:Pope John Paul II