285 Quotes About First-lines

On December 13, 1931, a fifty-seven-year-old English politician, still a member of Parliament but quite unwelcome in his own party’s government, stepped out of a taxi on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

It is an ancyant Marinere, And he stoppeth one of three:‘By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eyeNow wherefore stoppest me?

They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide.

As Amar watched the hall fill with guests arriving for his sister’s wedding, he promised himself he would stay.

A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C.

At dusk they pour from the sky,

He was the oldest son.

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eight-four days now without taking a fish.

How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.