Firsts Quotes

Trying is the first step toward failure.

What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

The first version of everything is janky.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

Don't invest in anything that you don't understand. Do your research first.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

Life is a bank account, there are no withdrawals without first putting something in.

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'

If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.

Avoid the "hard-to-grasp" headline - the headline that requires thought and is not clear at first glance.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.