Firsts Quotes

The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

Here is the first step toward success. It's a basic step. It can't be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.

For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

The first belief we must have if we're going to create change quickly is that we can change now.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make

Before you take the first dose of any medication your doctor prescribes, you should make it your business to find out more about the drug than the doctor himself knows.

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.