#irs

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#excitement #first #great #had #i

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner." ↗

— William Bell

#couple #down #ears #everybody #first

If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#becomes #both #did #first #i

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it. ↗

— William Bell

#busy #complete #dreaming #first #growing

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. ↗

— Edward Bellamy

#city #first #i #light #saw

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#architecture #art #civilization #first #first time

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#desire #first #law #make #must

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#destiny #extent #fail #god #legacy

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. ↗

— George Bentham

#began #between #carelessly #collected #dry