Firsts Quotes

Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added

The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

You gotta be hungry for it. You’ve got to put everything you got on it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one in line. That’s how leaders are born.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning".

I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great

If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.