Firsts Quotes

It's easier to believe in yourself after someone else has believed in you first.

There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier.

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Fear first created the gods.

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

My first wife didn't like to fly, either.

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

Your people come first, and if you treat them right, they'll treat the customers right.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.

I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.

Seek first to understand before being understood.

I must confess. Of all of the brotherhood, he was the one I loved first and he remains the one I love the most. For me, he is just the...one.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

First of all, let's get one thing straight: fitness and exercise aren't the same thing. You can exercise without getting fit, but you can't get fit without exercise.

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

Celebrating Christmas without Christ is like celebrating George Washington's birthday without mentioning the first president.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

Today, President Barack Obama promised to 'detect and pursue' American tax evaders, as opposed to his first 100 days, in which he detected and nominated American tax evaders.