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“The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.”

Ifs Needs Should Firsts Home Dies Drink Husband Cat Convinced Checks Cooks My Husband Coming Home Corpses Coke Refrigerators Ovens

Author:Jenny Lawson

“I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.”

Trying Firsts Home School Remember Water Practice Television High School Cool Things Blown Away Happy Day Polo Water Polo

Author:Ted McGinley

“Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.”

Writing Firsts Home Used Adventure Computer Atoms Bubbles Teens Primitive Acorns

Author:Graham Nelson

“One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.”

World Years Firsts Home Mother Felt Half One Word Anchors

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“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.”

Writing Firsts Home Hours Morning First Time Get Up Novelists Coming Home Breakfast

Author:Ridley Pearson

“I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me.”

World Want Firsts Home Moving Father Dad My Family Around The World Good Father Good Dad

Author:Ricky Ponting

“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.”

Firsts Said I Can Ideas Home Reading Novel Audience Written Crime Dad My Dad Wide Bus Conductor Scots

Author:Ian Rankin

“I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.”

Ifs Firsts Home House Argument Thirds Family And Friends Second Chance God First

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.”

Firsts Has Beens Country Home Names Player Tough Slam Tough Things

Author:Samantha Stosur

“In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.”

Knows Firsts Home Christian Community And Love Raised Decades God Love Christian Home

Author:Chely Wright

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.”

Men Firsts Facts Home Mother Father Generations Grew Married Grew Up Latin Italian Latin America Latin American

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.”

Firsts Book Home Running Kissing Enjoyment Home Run

Book:Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

Source: Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

“The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.”

Firsts Home Found Records Majors Majority Invention Sat Pioneers Electrical Phonograph

Author:Dave Barry

“I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.”

Firsts Littles Home School Jobs Remember Students High School Cooking Profession Bars Our Family Heat Carter Handicaps

Author:Bobby Flay

“Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.”

Firsts Littles Stills Home Earth Song Waiting Wonder Spring Bird Garden South Snow Welcome Symbols Farmers Mates Wet Hardy Orchard Bluebird Minstrels

Author:Neltje Blanchan

“My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.”

Years Firsts Home School Brother Mom High School My Mom My Brother Grades Deaf Ohio Columbus Grades In School Columbus Ohio

Author:Les Miles

“I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.”

People Firsts Home Running Found Fire Painting Importance Testament

Author:Robert Genn

“We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.”

Firsts Home Practice Virtue Democracy Duty Voting Patriotic

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.”

People Want Firsts Reason Home First Time Towns Small Town

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.”

Firsts Stills Home Care Don't Care Johnson Dave Matthew

Author:Jennifer Garner

“It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.”

Years Firsts Play Home Today Lasts Winning Difficult Steps Last Year Right Direction Steps In The Right Direction

Author:Gustavo Kuerten

“Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties. . . . By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.”

Firsts Home Social Wise Duty Capacity Increase Seeking Accomplish Stewards

Author:Eliza R. Snow

“I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.”

People Firsts Home Past Night Courses Hours Party Dinner Expected Coffee Hardest Meals Exhausted Saturday Dessert Saturday Night Bedtime Appetizers

Author:Ina Garten

“In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.”

“Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we're the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don't have to listen to anyone.”

Thinking Firsts Persons I Can Home Today Together Creativity Creative Cutting Generations Type Internet Aspect Blow Online Great Times Get Together This Generation Laptops

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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