The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.
I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn’t get shoved first.
As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter’s behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.
And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.
Hassan couldn’t read a first-grade textbook but he’d read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God’s own love first set in motion those fair things.
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that, as a rule, a poet should read them.
Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?
Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
Yet hold it more humane, more heav’nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.
Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.
God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.