Firsts Quotes

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.

"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

Friendship first, competition second.

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

To change the world It starts with one step However small First step is hardest of all.

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.

The first CD said exactly what it was. I was just in the streets hustling. I come from a family of hustlers.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.