Firsts Quotes

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.

A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.

Hitler was the first superstar.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Getting that first knockout against Joe Riggs [in 2006] meant a lot to me then and still does today.

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you need, it will be so.

Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

I wonder if anybody ever decided to commit suicide, then thought; but first I'm going to stop by that taco place I like so much.

Can't you see... that I made it? Yeah I made it First I made you who you are, but then I made it.

Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

I don't think I remember my first memory.

The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.

I just want my kids to see that when you serve and put other people first and invest in other people it will come back!

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

Effect should come first. Method second.

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

I have an interest in making first-person games.