Firsts Quotes

Budget the luxuries first.

Drop dead-but first get permit

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

I've found that I'd be the first one to cut lines.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.

My first go-round was in a group called Heltah Skeltah, I did that, it was cool.

Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!

I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then.

There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners

Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.

Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.

I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.

First you have to help yourself.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

A kiss is an inquiry on the second floor as to what's going on on the first floor.

It is very difficult to apply the old Indian adage 'Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins,' unless you get out of your own moccasins first.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science