Firsts Quotes · Page 10

The stage is my first love.

— Anthony Mackie

First thought, best thought.

— Allen Ginsberg

Loyalty is the first law of God.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

First and last follow each other.

— Laozi

I consider myself a bassist first.

— Casey Abrams

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

— Hakeem Olajuwon

Everything solid was first an idea.

— Vanna Bonta

Wonder is the first of all the passions.

— Rene Descartes

If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter.

— Kelly Nelson

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

— John Darnielle

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

— Rita Rudner

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

— Erykah Badu

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

— Celine Dion

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

— Lanford Wilson

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

— Henri Nouwen

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New…

— Anna Camp

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

— Bryan Adams

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

— Kurt Cobain

In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first…

— Nicholas of Cusa

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

— Barry Diller

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water,…

— Wangari Maathai

As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there…

— John Calvin

I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter…

— Julianne Malveaux

One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity,…

— Barbara Mikulski

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from…

— Bill Vaughan

First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action…

— Swami Vivekananda

My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first…

— Tony Robbins

She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never…

— Kristin Hannah

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards…

— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of…

— Sarah Dessen

“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot…

— Galileo Galilei

Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has…

— Michael J. Sullivan

I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out.…

— Paul McCartney

I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons,…

— Manis Friedman

One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest…

— Sam Harris

The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls.…

— Bette Midler