Firsts Quotes

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.

Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

In order to finish first, you first have to finish.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.

You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the words.

To feed our people we must first feed our soil

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

The first duty of life is to live.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.