#first time

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself. ↗

— Rita Dove

#back #became #childhood #come #first

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for. ↗

— Fred Frith

#band #could #couple #felt #first

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#first #first time #going #hear #into

I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#any #because #explicit #first #first time

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them. ↗

— Jack Klugman

#around #being #blow #close #dealt

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#come #could #director #find #first

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#country #enters #first #first time #him

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#first #first time #guitar #guitar player #had

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics. ↗

— Im Dong-Hyun

#compete #desire #first #first time #forgot

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it. ↗

— Julius Erving

#age #basketball #because #difficulty #eight