Firsts Quotes

Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

I've been involved in and out of the UN for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!

If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.

Whatever's lost, it first was won.

A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.

Don't give away to others what you have not first given away at home.

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

Allo, darlin’. Oi’m so glad to see it’s love at first sight for you, too.

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

For the first movie, they had the girls in one hotel and the boys in another hotel. Then, we found out that they actually preferred their hotel, so we moved over there and all hell broke loose.

I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?

I remember going to the wardrobe-fitting for the first time and seeing all the cool high-waisted jeans and halter-tops - and that style is coming back anyway - so I loved that!

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.