Firsts Quotes

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.

I go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears.

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.

What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first.

the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.

If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a different language

Being, not doing, is my first joy.

Prettiness dies first.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

There's just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you first arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but then you find it between two blocks of flats

Our parents are our first oppressors.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.