First place Quotes

“In the first place, you can't see anything from a car.”

— Ed Abbey

“such capacities in the first place.”

— Anonymous

“Sometimes…we forgot why we chose to forget in the first place!”

— MpD

I've learned that you don't have to win first place to win.

— Kim Zmeskal

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

— Nelson Mandela

All these expectations on me exist because of me in the first place.

— Luke Campbell

When we keep God in first place, everything else falls into place.

— Joyce Meyer

Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

“Clay smiled like a man who’d won first place in a “Whose Life Sucks the Most”

— Nicholas Eames

Number one rule: Never get attached to something that wasn't yours in the first place.

— Green Monk

“There is a big difference between eliminating waste and not creating it in the first place.”

— Alan Shalloway

As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.

— Wilfrid Sheed

“The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”

— Mort W. Lumsden

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the…

— Condola Rashad

The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not…

— Kimberly Peirce

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

— Lois Wyse

The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic…

— Karina Longworth

The first year I moved to Nashville, I started playing these songwriter nights with people like Nickel Creek, Duncan Sheik, and even…

— Mat Kearney

“Wake up. This is your life, for God sakes. It's time to face up to it. You can't get anywhere, can't get…

— Julie Buxbaum

To know that anybody would go out and buy my jersey or get my jersey as a gift, that's something I don't…

— Justin Tucker

I wanted all the music to sound strong. It's all down to the restoration and mastering. In many ways I feel the…

— Gavin Friday

“Just as the overturned bucket that was once brimming seems so much emptier than the bucket that never held milk in the…

— Tom Robbins

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing…

— Graham Phillips

There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software…

— Glenn Turner

“Althought it's important not to let the little irritations consume you, it's also important not to ignore them. Backing down when others…

— Art Berg

“It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more, which is probably…

— Daria Snadowsky

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the…

— Diana Nyad

There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in…

— Laura Dern

“the author claimed that blacking out wasn’t simply a matter of forgetting what had happened, but having no memories to forget in…

— Paula Hawkins

We never ask candidates to demonstrate their skill. We ask lots of questions about past experience, but simply looking at the results…

— Justin Menkes

“Yes, it is the most important love, the love of the mother is a given, it is taken for granted. A child…

— Katie Kitamura

I would model well-being by presenting myself as a high-energy person who loves what I am doing and who is thrilled to…

— Wayne Dyer

“I had never deserved to be forgiven in the first place when I Was converted. I could do nothing to merit God's…

— Helen Roseveare

“He was reading a cheap-looking booklet. Since he was literate, I thought he might be one of the people I was being…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“On Saturday mornings during deliveries, I'd practice picking out new words in Jane Eyre, sounding out the ones that needed sounding out—and…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded…

— Douglas Adams

“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The question we must all ask ourselves is how Mr. Benn was able to come within striking distance of the very heart…

— Keith Joseph

“It is your brain that decides to get you out of bed in the morning to exercise, to give you a stronger,…

— Daniel G. Amen

“I was receiving at least ninety-nine incredible, positive, and life-changing responses for every negative or abusive one, yet I couldn’t stop looking…

— Dan Pearce