Firsts Quotes

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

Getting back on the surfboard after the [shark] attack was the hardest thing and I did it! After that, the hardest thing was my first competition.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

I'm a huge film star... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f--ing minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a f--ing Muppet movie.

People first. Technology second.

My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.

One of the first things I said when I signed on for the show was No hugs! Full House was all based on hugs.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically.

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

Charlie Brown got hit with a line-drive!" "Does anyone here know anything about first-aid?" "It's probably not serious... Second or third-aid will do.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?

Act first, explain later.

I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.

Listen first and never stop listening.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.