Firsts Quotes

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration.

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

A person who takes a walk of 100 feet and a person who walks 2,000 miles have one major thing in common. They both need to take a first step before they take a second step.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

Children notice things first, people later.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

I'm thankful for the position that I'm in, I'm thankful to go to the ceremony [of Grammys] the first time, thankful for everything. I'm just taking it step by step.

They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.]

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.

I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn."

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

In a long race, if I'm worried about fatigue, my concentration is the first thing to go.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

First is first, and second is nowhere.

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

In my ministry, I teach my disciples, "Power first, then the Word. Go in and prophesy first, or demonstrate the power of God first in some way."

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.