Firsts Quotes

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.

My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

I prefer to work with first-time directors.

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.

I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create.

fang will be the first to die

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.

I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!