Best one-day & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.”

Ifs Want Firsts I Can Play Helping Wanted Parent Goal Brother Mom Dad One Day Beats Ultimate My Dad My Mom My Brother Tennis Ultimate Goal

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.”

People Knows Firsts Jobs Asks One Day Ask Me

Author:Martha Wainwright

“He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.”

Firsts Might Used Three Secret Gone Sea Land One Day Thirds Repentance Trusted Three Things Cato

Book:Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

Source: Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

“The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.”

Firsts Next Class Gone Masters One Day Dinner Servant Manifestation Serving Next Day Disappearance Classless Society

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. It's not like I just ran one day and all of a sudden became a champion. It was a lot of work.”

Firsts Ends Race Four Months One Day Backgrounds Ran Champion March

Author:Edwin Moses

“That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of them. But one day in college a few buddies and myself all started listening to them again and it blew me away. They still stand out as my favorite band ever.”

Firsts Kind Stills College Listening One Day Band Thirds My Favorite Nostalgia Grades Fourth Standing Out Buddy Fourth Grade Favorite Bands

Author:Girl Talk

“I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail. I never dreamt that I could one day be a part of it. And now I am.”

Men Firsts America Young One Day First Time Investment Young Man Cathedrals Retail

Author:Diego Della Valle

“Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.”

Firsts Art Made Next Fashion One Day Wings Pale Pathetic Puppets Libertine

Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

“God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.”

Years Firsts Persons Religion Found Lost Hell Atheism One Day Prove First Time Strikes Flesh Satan Paradise Secular Forbidden Sandwiches Ham Swine Thunderbolts

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.”

Firsts Suffering Three Term Drink One Day Cost Equal Thirds Repent Sinning Intemperance

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne

“Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter.”

“I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents, and one day the girl fled to the woods to live amongst a pack of wolves. Hey, I was eleven, loved wolves, and had been grounded for what I felt was a minor infraction. Can you blame me?”

Writing Firsts Believe Stories Young Girl I Believe Felt Parent One Day Blame Woods Hey Minors Packs Grounded Eleven Blame Me Mistreated Packs Of Wolves

Author:Victoria Laurie

“I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably reflect the sport safely available. The second and deeply urgent one is that we shall grow a race of sportsmen no one of whom will ever consider it a matter of pride to have killed a limit.”

Firsts Two Matter Enough Games Grows Sports Race Sea Pride One Day Limits Rivers Fishes Available Boat Lakes Fishing Urgent Hope For The Future Sportsman

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.”

“Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the ardour with which the Anglo-Americans prosecute commercial enterprise, the advantages which befriend them, and the success of their undertakings, I cannot refrain from believing that they will one day become the first maritime power of the globe. They are born to rule the seas, as the Romans were to conquer the world.”

Source: Democracy in America

“I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.”

Firsts Wells School America Mom One Day Summer South My Mom Grades Staying Vacation South Africa Coming Back North America Slipping Summer Vacation

Author:Kandyse McClure

“One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.”

Firsts Heart Home One Day First Time Chaos Welcome Settling Demon Flats Making Peace

Author:Robert M

“Finding your passion is like finding your career soul mate. You 'date around' a bit, trying various jobs, but one day you find something you love so much you wanna marry it and see it every morning before your first cup of coffee.”

Trying Firsts Soul Jobs Passion Bits Careers Morning One Day Findings Various Coffee Cups Mates Every Morning Soul Mate Coffee Cup Something You Love Finding Your Passion

Author:Emme

“I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.”

Firsts Grows Hair One Day

Author:Vinnie Jones

“I remember when I first moved to L.A. from Michigan when I was 11 years old and I walked down the Walk of Fame and looked at the hand and foot prints of the stars and it was the coolest thing. And I never thought that mine would actually be there one day, so when it happened it was so surreal and such an honor”

Years Firsts Hands Remember Stars Walks Happened Feet Mines Honor One Day Fame Moved Print Remember When Surreal Michigan Hands And Feet

Author:Taylor Lautner

“I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.”

Firsts Made I Can Two Hard Kids Age Found Common Acting Class Laughing One Day Admire Two Things Imaginary Fractions Carols Acting Classes Ucla Imaginary Friend Make Someone Laugh

Author:Christine Lakin

“I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.”

Firsts Mean Remember Rooms Lessons One Day Hollywood Editing

Author:Eddie Griffin

“When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.”

“My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.”

Firsts Doe Real Running Behinds Class Plans Football One Day Decided Rounds Very Good Scared Principal Playing Football Sophomore

Author:Jerry Rice

“When I went to my first CMA Fest, I wanted to be an artist, but I was such a fan girl - I still am - and the two people I waited in line to meet were Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum. Taylor, I haven't gotten to sit and talk with her as much as I hope I get to one day, but even with her just supporting me on her social media has been incredible.”

People Firsts Has Beens Stills Two Wanted Artist Girl Social Lines Fans Media Havens One Day Incredibles Social Media Antebellum

Author:Kelsea Ballerini

“When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens to me in Prague I'm not going to use the name Kafka, I'm just not going to do it. I won't do it; it's so easy, everyone else does, I'm not going to. I'll write the first non-Kafka mentioning piece.”

Writing Firsts Doe Use Happens Names Easy Pieces One Day Communist Regimes 80s Whatever Happens Czechoslovakia Prague

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.”

Ifs Way Writing Firsts Looks I Can Earth Moving Written Sky One Day Letters Staring Massive Shifting I Can Read

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day". And 15 years later, I did.”

Years Firsts Said Success Faith Saws Wife Relationship Fronts One Day Sitting First Time My Wife Memphis

Author:Steve Harvey

“When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself.”

“I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student. I wince to read that story nowadays, but I published it with an odd photo I'd found in a junk shop, and at least I still like the picture. I had a few things in the school paper, and then I got published in a small literary magazine. I hoped I would one day get published in The New Yorker, but I never allowed myself to actually believe it. Getting published is one of those things that feels just as good as you'd hoped it would.”

Feels Firsts Believe Art Stills Stories School Found Students One Day Paper Newspapers Magazines Odd Shops Chicago Junk New Yorkers Institute Feels Just Wince

Author:David Sedaris

“As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.”

Firsts Justice One Day Eating Misery Sat Vegetarian Vegan Bites Spit Steak

Book:Alice Walker Banned

Source: Alice Walker Banned

“I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.”

Firsts Play Wanted Found Dad One Day Guitar My Dad Studios Labels Session

Author:Shuggie Otis

“While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.”

Firsts Lasts Effort One Day Guarantees Guarantees That

Author:John F. Kennedy

“We didn't push it down people's throats...One turned into three in a short period of time. I built the first one and...one day someone walked in and said "You know, I really like the design on this. Who built that?" I said "I did." He goes "Well, would you be interested in building me one?" I went "Yeah, I'll do that."”

People Knows Firsts Wells Said Three Design Building Periods One Day Built Yeah Throat

Author:Drew Waters

“I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour - and I spent all day cleaning shelves. On my first day an actress from Eldorado, which was on telly at the time, came in and said, 'Can I have some Replense please?' I didn't know what it was, so I had to ask her and she had to say, 'It's vaginal moisturiser,' in front of a massive queue of people. After one day I was like, 'I don't want to do this job any more, it's just boring.'”

People Knows Want Firsts Said Jobs Asks Hours Pay Fronts Please One Day Slave Boring Actresses Ridiculous Labour Massive Shelves Saturday Cleaning Chemist Queues Slave Labour

Author:Konnie Huq

“One day, you're 11 games, 12 games out, and the next day you're in first!”

Firsts Next Games One Day Next Day

Author:Jeff Francoeur

“Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"”

Way Firsts Littles Two Young Turns Asks Water Silence Boys Morning Hell One Day Fishes Swim Swimming Wiser Salmon

Author:David Foster Wallace

“The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished.”

Trying Years Firsts Littles Names Bits Minutes Taught One Day Little Bit Finished Call Me I Have Learned Academy Naval Back To Work Prestigious Naval Academy

Author:Sam Smith

“I’m trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don’t know if there’s any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.”

Ifs Knows Trying Firsts Comedy One Day Moguls

Author:J. B. Smoove

“When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father.”

Way Firsts Kind Used Night Turns Three Father Huge Dad One Day Lucky Band Mouths Rounds My Dad Load Truck Laundry Toronto Helpers

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“Because I'm a "strong person," the symptoms hit me by surprise. It was, as I write in the book, stinging in my eyes after Sunday that I thought was an allergy, until one day I sat in the car and decided to just let my eyes tear up so that whatever was in them would come out, and what came out were tears that wouldn't stop. It was literally a physical reaction that was my first indication there was anything wrong.”

Writing Firsts Persons Book Eye Strong Car Tears One Day Decided Surprise Reactions Sat Sunday Symptoms Indication Allergies Strong Person

Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.”

Firsts Fronts College One Day Sitting Brilliant Uncles Retired Aircraft Kansas Porch Boeing Randy Front Porches

Author:James Earl Jones

“Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new partnership with the United Kingdom one day? All 27 Member States would have to agree to that. And the United Kingdom would first have to reflect on what it wants itself.”

Want Needs Firsts Matter States United Company Citizens One Day Members Agree Clean Divorce Kingdoms Certainty Partnership United Kingdom

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.”

Firsts One Day Shots First Time Finished Shooting Ran Hotel Staying Elevators Screening Hong Kong Laura

Author:Zachary Quinto

“When I first came to the U.S. - because I do accents and I've traveled the world. I have friends of almost every single ethnicity, and I would mimic them. And when I came to the U.S., I remember one day we're at "The Daily Show." And I mimicked my Chinese friend. And the guys at the show were like, oh, hey, don't ever do that again. That's really racist.”

World Firsts Shows Remember Guy One Day Hey Chinese Racist Accents Traveled Ethnicity Daily Show

Author:Trevor Noah

“I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.”

Knows Firsts Believe Persons Stills Shows America Grows Growing Up Heard Middle College One Day First Time Army Atheist Session Bulls College Education

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman standing, very well-dressed and groomed, and he asked, "What is your name? I don't know you. What is your major?" I said history. And he looked at my drawing and looked at me and said, "You don't belong over there; you belong here." He was James A. Porter.”

Knows Firsts Wells Art Said Courses Names One Day Majors Standing Drawing Shoulders Gentleman Tall Well Dressed

Author:David C. Driskell

“I'd have no problem kicking Tobey McGuire out of Spiderman because Spiderman has been my favorite superhero since I can possibly even remember having my first thought . I love Spiderman, but he does a great job so I'm going to have to find myself another superhero to become one day.”

Firsts Doe Has Beens I Can Problem Jobs Remember One Day My Favorite Superhero No Problem Kicking Great Job

Author:George Stults

“When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.”

Firsts House White Levels Influence One Day Access Campaigns Plenty Presidential White House Fewer Volunteer Juniors Envelopes Presidential Campaign Walter Mondale

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

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