Firsts Quotes

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

From the first Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has proven that He will only come to the degree that we have unity.

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

Treat everyone like it's still your first job and that we're all just happy to be here.

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

The first person I ever cared deeply and sincerely about was - myself.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

Get money first; virtue comes after.

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

Nature's first green is gold.

I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.

I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.