Firsts Quotes

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.

I would say acting on stage is my first love.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

Sometimes I like to go outside without even checking the weather first.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

[on Emilio Estevez] Truly, my first love.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper."

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.