Firsts Quotes

First you have to have a dream.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

God first, family second, career third.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

When you get up in the morning, let your first thought be directed towards God.

For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream. This is probably one of my worst places.

The first 18 holes are extremely difficult.

Everyone is just as committed and focused as they were the first season.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

I'll always stand by the first [Batman]. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.

An education reformer is as important in America as the first lady.

First be the best and then be first

The coach is first of all a teacher.

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak

I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.

I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

Here’s what I tell people now when they come to my shows: “First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.”

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.