Firsts Quotes

His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think.

First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.

I waited for my first kiss.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could have literally been the thing that saved them, but I would never know that.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.

It’s not important,” Silena insisted. “We have to find Charlie!” Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery.

When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30

Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

Honestly, I really hated dancing at first. Because I'm not good at it. I still don't like dancing.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.