Firsts Quotes

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

You can't come up with ideas if you don't see first.

The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.

Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

The designer must think first and work later.

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.

In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

To succeed, you must first believe you can.

I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

Before you can ever inspire, motivate, or influence, you must connect first.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

The very first part in healing is shattering the silence.

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.

I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

Study everything, but study yourself first.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

Being the first is old media, while being to the point is new media. And Twitter never forgets.

Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

Before you rob your first bank, knock off a couple of gas stations.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far!

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time.

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.