Firsts Quotes

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

I may not have voted for Donald Trump, but I'm an American first. My entire administration is going to do everything we can to make him as successful as we can.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.

Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience.

I was Google's first woman engineer.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.