“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.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsFirstsLongStillsI CanHelpingAgeCultureFoundMy OwnActingStepsInfluenceModernFirst TimeStonesWesternHelping OthersPreservesHeritageDefiniteAmazedLong WayIntegratedPlaces In The WorldRelicsStone AgeModern DanceDance Steps Author:Paul Robeson
“For the first time in history, Congress has 100 women in it. Congratulations. Welcome to modern times, America. It's great having 100 women in Congress. Unless you're in line for the congressional bathroom.” FirstsAmericaLinesModernFirst TimeCongressWelcomeCongratulationsBathroomModern Times Author:Craig Ferguson
“In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.” WayGivingFirstsHumansDoeWisdomPoliticsRaceEconomyModernMankindFirst TimeHuman RaceLiberalismModern ScienceAbundant Life Author:Karl Taylor Compton
“I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.” FirstsArtBeautifulArtistFeltModernEventsHonorFirst TimeRedDressesDinnerMuseumsSheerCarpetClosingRed CarpetLaceModern ArtRetrospectiveGivenchy Author:Joan Smalls
“The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.” FirstsMusicModernCenturyStrengthHeroFirst TimeCombinationPurityAdolescenceTypicalTwentieth CenturySpontaneityModern TimesWagnerPhysical StrengthJoie De Vivre Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life
“And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes the identity of the banjo, and everything from before is wiped off of people's consciousness by the power of that explosion.” PeopleFirstsConsciousnessModernStyleIdentityFirst TimeInstrumentsSouthernExplosionsBanjos Author:Bela Fleck