Firsts Quotes · Page 18

First the grub, then the morals.

— Bertolt Brecht

Prettiness dies first.

— George Herbert

Very often the music comes first.

— Neil Diamond

Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.

— David Sedaris

The world needs more love at first sight.

— Maggie Stiefvater

They always blame America first!

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Journalism is the first draft of history

— Phil Graham

The first person you lead is you.

— John C. Maxwell

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, ‘Where is my food?’

— Liang Chow

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.

— Veronica Roth

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

— Bill Vaughan

American is the first democratic nation-state.

— Stephen Ambrose

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

— Robert B. Laughlin

I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.

— Irwin M. Jacobs

Education is the only solution. Education first.

— Malala Yousafzai

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

— Irene Rosenfeld

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

— Stephen Covey

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

— Perry Farrell

I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens.…

— Talib Kweli

While GOP elites say they're shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump's religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled…

— Donald Trump

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

— Douglas Rushkoff

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

— Jack Adams

He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope…

— Emily Bronte

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect…

— Elijah Wood

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing…

— Kelly Clarkson

The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place,…

— Peter Kreeft

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first…

— George R. R. Martin

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher.…

— Bruce Sutter

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused…

— James Nesbitt

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going.…

— William Gibson

I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in…

— Carolyn Wheat

I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going…

— Chris Brown

Swami cannot give peace of mind; you must work for it yourselves. First, stop the questioning and ask, 'who am I?'. This…

— Sathya Sai Baba

It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able…

— Nathan Milstein

That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed…

— William Penn

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six…

— Richard Rodriguez

I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated.…

— Rick Riordan