Firsts Quotes

Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?

The first thing I learned is when times are tough, you need to hedge your bets - you need to diversify.

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyberdefenses and weaknesses.

We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.

We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.

The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

The first thing you do is don't let the jobs leave. The companies are leaving.

Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget.

First of all, with Mitt Romney, I was saying to the Mormons - the Mormons are very smart people.

I was so overwhelmed by India when I first came - it still inspires me because I still go for the culture, I still go for the colors.

I do remember how sexy my collection was after I first got involved with Stephan [Weiss]. That's one thing I don't have in my life now and...if anything, that's one thing I would love.

When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.

You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.

I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

I hate to see a woman cry, unless of course I'm crying first in which case I feel it's appropriate.

Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.

Gotta get rid of these free radicals, but first I need to figure out what they are.

The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg.

I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

I actually am always a music first person

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.

The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair.

I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was Wedding Crashers.

Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.