Firsts Quotes

Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

"Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei."

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

First rule, stick them with the pointy end!

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.

First of all, I don't see America having problems.

First of all, you never retire. At least I don't retire.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life." She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.

When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!

Love, first begotten of all created things.

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.

I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he'd say was, "Fear not."... I guess they were pretty spectacular.

In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.

First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.

My drive is still cool, it's not like how when I first began. I don't think anyone's drive is the same.

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.

I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes.

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air.

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

First I have a collection of all of the albums I've ever done, on vax.

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.