Sentence examples for my first thought of from inspiring English sources

My first thought of the day: I love my dog.

Whereas my first thought of Million Dollar Baby was: is this something I'd like to direct, and then [second] would I like to be in it?

My first thought of Mr. Sullivan was that he was such a character and that he was different than many of my former teachers.

My first thought on hearing was of those ranks of severed heads and the arc of hate connecting those Bircher lies to atrocity in Oklahoma City.

Still, when I think of Cuckoo's Nest, my first thought is of the severe let-down of not playing McMurphy.

When I wake up in the morning, my first thought is of making coffee, not of typing "Someone spiked my coffee with optimism this morning and I spat it right out".

Hearing the news Tuesday that the new heir to the British throne was a boy, my first thought was of Lady Mary Crawley, heroine of the post-Edwardian-era soap "Downton Abbey".

When Michelin announced this year that it would be releasing a Washington, D.C., guide instead of returning to Los Angeles, my first thought was of Mélisse.

So when Aperture approached us last fall about helping them launch their new educational series of photography books, I was surprised that my first thought was of our Two Looks blog, one we'd created a few years ago to connect our online community of former workshop students from around the world.

When the White House released its unconscionable budget on Wednesday, which includes plans to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, my first thought was of militants destroying statues with sledgehammers in Iraq's Mosul Museum — of the extermination of culture as a vile form of propaganda.

NEW YORK — My first thought, hearing of the Polish tragedy, was that history's gyre can be of an unbearable cruelty, decapitating Poland's elite twice in the same cursed place, Katyn.