Firsts Quotes

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

I learned that, "Mike, you get your first job on your ability and every job after that on your dependability."

The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything.

Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Harmony is something we must have with others, but it must start inside us first.

I did a picture for the First Barbie doll box.

A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't.

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

To change your horse you must first change yourself!