Firsts Quotes

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

While GOP elites say they're shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump's religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled up in their party.

In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you.

I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me.

I've learned that you don't have to win first place to win.

First and foremost, I married for love. I can't believe I even have to defend this.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

If design is the first signal of human intention.

When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

First, you have to finish.

Be not the first to take up the new, nor the last to cast the old aside.

She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea.

First you harmonize, then you customize.

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

My first option is not to run. I am not a runner. I'm a quarterback.

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.

I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.