Firsts Quotes

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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."

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

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

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

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

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

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

Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

First make peace inside yourself.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it.

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.

The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.

If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.