Firsts Quotes

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

Actors were the first people to accept me.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

And personally I will say that Amy Poehler deserves about a thousand trophies and so one is a good start, and I'm hoping this is the first of a thousand. That's my personal hope.

We must change the culture of politics first.

The winner of the first point is the loser of the last.

My first car was a 1986 Toyota pickup.

In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

When I got Trophy Wife, the first fear is, This could go away; the second is, Its here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

The number of those 19 to 25 with private insurance increased from 51 to 55.8 percent, and the percentage of uninsured fell from 33.9 percent in 2010 to 28.8 percent during the first half of 2011.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.

Awareness is always the first step.

In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place.

If your first response is, 'I can't do this,' then that is exactly where God wants you to be.

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.

Let's be very clear first off. Nothing has changed about Donald Trump's position on dealing with illegal immigration.

Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.

Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.