Firsts Quotes

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.

My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.

Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first." Of course I do. Gale.

It's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There was no coming back from that.

Putting People First was progressivism revived, and at its best.

I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.

Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.

We don't care about going 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0. Our first main objective is to go 1-0. That's the only thing we care about. That's the main focus.

I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

You never know. Down the road you can do a lot of product categories. But I think you really have to build your core first and for people to know you and respect you for that.

I'm really hoping just to keep building on what we're doing. You have to build your core business first which is really important.

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

Thus went my first Court Day. I think i'm going to puke.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

In the first quarter of 2015, it is necessary to explain to the population and business what fields will be supported by the state

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

I don't do the mirror thing; maybe once or twice when I first started out.

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First Amendment, it protects everyone's faith.

It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.

It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible.