“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.” PeopleWantFirstsReasonHomeFirst TimeTownsSmall Town Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.” PeopleFirstsArtShowsLife IsFeltToo MuchArt IsFirst TimeTownsPaintChinaSentencesDrawingInnocentCanvasPortraitsConformSmall TownSmall Town LifeOverreaction Author:Alice Neel
“'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.” FirstsHouseLeftTreeNew YorkFirst TimeMy FamilyTownsImpactIncrediblesHillsSmall TownCarolinaNorth CarolinaTree Hill Author:Daniella Alonso
“The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.” FirstsSaidPainNightLeftSawsSkyFirst TimeTownsAwakeTouchingThroatSuckerBreathlessTouching You Book:Live for a Living Source: Live for a Living
“The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.” FirstsBandFirst TimeTownsFantasticChicagoGreat MusicZappa Author:Terry Bozzio
“I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.” FirstsCollegeTravelFirst TimeTownsSmall TownSemester Author:Alton Brown
“...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.” KnowsWorldFirstsLooksLastsHalfMorningFieldsSolitudeHappeningsSittingFirst TimeWindowTownsTrainEveningShakesPoolSolitaryPaleLast TimeTravellerCartsVanishingMules Author:Virginia Woolf
“I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her." Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.” ThinkingShouldTryingFirstsHappensFallPoorOughtClothesFirst TimeLet MeTownsBreathsDressesDeep BreathTake A Deep BreathNew Clothes Book:Clockwork Angel Source: Clockwork Angel