Best first-time & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.”

Years Firsts Age Stage New York First Time Fairs Performing Brooklyn Performing Music Brooklyn New York

Author:Theophilus London

“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.”

“What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.”

Firsts Age Heard Feminism Changed Men And Women First Time Albums Relate

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.”

Years Firsts Age Mother First Time Twenties Actresses Hunters Autographs

Book:Ingrid Bergman: My Story

Source: Ingrid Bergman: My Story

“The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.”

Firsts Made Hands Age Father Half Missing First Time Balls Feds Racket

Author:Marion Bartoli

“I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous.”

Firsts Play Age Saws Week Streets Fronts New York Hair Band First Time West Clubs Jealous Boots Peter Cowboy Vans Bucks Swans Cowboy Boot Great Hair

Author:Michael Stipe

“To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to be occurring so rapidly that the shift is no longer a simple extension of long-term trends. We have passed a genuine watershed: this is the first time in our history that the typical school-age child has a mother who works outside the home.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.”

Firsts Age Young Felt Numbers First Time Thoughtful Fifty Bricks

Author:Jack Nicholson

“When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.”

People Firsts Kids Age Wanted Felt Understood First Time Los Angeles Freak Wacky

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.”

People Firsts Mean Age Nations Communication Industry First Time Boring Frightening Extinction

Book:The wanderer

Source: The wanderer

“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”

Men Firsts Persons Inspiration Age First Time Aging Old Man

Book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

“My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers and a sister. We're all very close. That was part of our childhood. But when I went to college and then got drafted and played in Anaheim, it was a life changer for me. I was exposed to so many things. I was out on my own for the first time.”

Firsts Two Age Spiritual Young My Own Childhood College Brother Mom First Time Our Children Catholic My Mom Life Changing Exposed Young Age Two Brothers Catholic Family

Author:Matt Cullen

“But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.”

Firsts Home Age Religious Identity First Time Buddhist Coming Home Zen Buddhist Religious Identity

Author:M. Scott Peck

“I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.”

Want Firsts Mean Age School Worry Concepts First Time Paid What You Want Retirement Retired Always Believe Doing What You Want

Author:Tommy Chong

“I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.”

World Years Firsts Heart Country Age Young Next Grows Parent Growing Up Dad First Time Seven My Dad London Fortunate Paris Traveled Conferences Young Age Next Year Surgeons Brussels

Author:Candice Accola

“I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and just start goin', at age six, the first time I did it. I think 14 was when I knew I wanted to do it and promote my own comedy shows at the church. Then, everyone would come.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Shows Age Wanted Church My Own Comedy Dad Six First Time My Dad Back In The Day Mics Comedy Shows

Author:Brandon T. Jackson

“I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.”

Years Firsts Said Age Mother Felt First Time Horse Galloping

Author:William Shatner

“I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.”

Firsts Age Streets First Time Twenties Jail Fifteen And Off Lowlifes

Author:Patricia McConnell

“I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on stage, but there was nobody watching. I just remember it was so natural and it was such a secret - like masturbating. I felt like I had to wait until everybody was gone. So I guess six years old would be my most important age, 'cause in that moment, I just knew what I wanted to do.”

Years Firsts Important Moments Would Be Age Wanted Remember House Felt Causes Waiting Natural Secret Gone Stage Six First Time Window That Moment Six Year Olds

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.”

World Firsts Believe Age Ability Saws Player First Time Nine Massive Championship Florida Builder Best Players

Author:Rory McIlroy

“At the age of 50, I did "Celebrity Fit Club" and I had to get on a scale and be weighed in front of everyone. I felt like I was naked and for the first time, there was nowhere to hide. I felt like I could finally be myself. It was really cathartic, and I realized I could share my mistakes. I could tell my story and not be ashamed, and show others with these same problems that they aren't alone.”

Firsts Stories Shows Problem Age Felt Mistake Share Fronts Fit First Time Clubs I Realized Scales Naked Ashamed My Mistakes Cathartic

Author:Maureen McCormick

“At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where he was. And there's something about seeing your father for the first time - my mother destroyed all pictures of him.”

Firsts Age Mother Father Seeing First Time Destroyed Toil Nigeria

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.”

Ifs Firsts Long Moments Age Lasts Felt Chance My Own Saws Scene Ocean First Time Breaths Tongue Release Plastic Brazil Deep Breath One Chance Suffocating Aquarius

Author:Sonia Braga

“There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets. That was what it was about. It doesn't solve things, but it gives you the mechanism to hold to account the people with power.”

People Men Giving Age Forget First Time Wasting Time

Author:Tony Benn

“Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like I stepped into adulthood. I realized, Okay, this is not going to work out. It was frustrating for about a year because I didn't know what to do with the creativity and the discipline that dancing had instilled in me from a very young age. But then I moved to Paris to model, and that was my cultural awakening. Now, I think dancing has been the biggest thing in my life, much more so than modeling, and it still helps me enormously in my work.”

“It wasn't like this happy-go-lucky experience, shooting Norman movie. It was something I kind of had to, sort of dedicate a certain level of focus and energy to kind of just stay in this headspace that would allow me to access - because it's also a very emotional movie at times. This was the first time I ever played a real character, a fully fleshed out, dimensionalized, multi-faceted character, as opposed to a part. There's not very much opportunity for somebody of my age and my look, so for a character-driven piece like this to come along is a rare thing.”

Kind Real Character Age Opportunity Energy Focus Emotional First Time

Author:Dan Byrd

“I turned 25. And I don't feel like... whatever, age is just a number. I still feel very young and excited about life and everything. For the first time ever I began to take a look at life and really value it, and realize that there are so many things that I want to do; travel, I want to see the world. I realized that I want to take more time for myself and take more time to see the world and spend time with friends. That sounds so basic but I never really realized that before.”

World Age Values Realizing First Time Excited I Realized End Times Spend Time

Author:Charli XCX

“Kafka was certainly one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, but he did not find his way to his own style until the age of nearly 30, so rather late. The disciplined immersion in unconscious psychical material is something he also learned only after long years of practice. When he succeeded in doing it for the first time - in the story The Judgement - it put him in a euphoric mood. He wanted to experience this again and again; the act of creation made him happy and proud.”

Long Age Talent Style Creation Proud First Time Mood Judgement Unconscious Euphoric

Author:Reiner Stach

“For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to England and embracing the English culture and becoming part of so-called swinging London and the era of euphoria and celebration that the '60s represented is very critical. It was a moment when, for the first time, the business of internationalism was being effectively represented-in music, art, cinema, design. Before that, everything was directed toward the old industry, the old school, the old format, and there was no room for varieties to evolve.”

Art Moments Age School Christian Culture Design First Time Variety Evolve Islamic Celebration Old School Euphoria

Author:Tony Shafrazi

“Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.”

People Ifs Firsts Mean Facts Age Five Saws First Time Eight Fortunate Thirty Birthday Elderly 60th Birthday Expectancy Uganda Life Expectancy Thirty Eight

Author:Annie Lennox

“Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.”

Firsts Age Young Forget Growing Up Growing Stage First Time Paris Instant Makeup Never Forget Young Age Glamour Lipstick Hooked Iconic

Author:Lea Michele

“When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.”

People Thinking Firsts Seems Age Certain Deals First Time Bigger Things In Life

Author:Conor Oberst

“I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.”

People Firsts I Can Sometimes Age Remember Generations Ten Clothes First Time England Obsessed Shirts Jeans T Shirt Eleven My Generation

Author:Paul Weller

“The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.”

Knows Want Firsts Ends Age Jobs Faces Guy Realizing Simple Middle Worst Youth Particular First Time Worst Things Middle Ages

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.”

People Firsts Age Desire Felt Tears First Time Foolish

Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction

“And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.”

Men Firsts Ends Age Lasts Loss Grief Saws Fate Strange First Time Accounts Lays Wounds Weariness

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

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