Firsts Quotes · Page 20

First time I kissed you, I lost my legs.

— Dave Matthews

And the first king was a lucky soldier.

— S.M. Stirling

Things were first made, then words.

— Thomas Overbury

The first rule of business is FUN

— James Victore

The first rule for success? Show up.

— Jeanne Robertson

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

— Melanie Fiona

First you harmonize, then you customize.

— Wilson Pickett

First master the fundamentals.

— Larry Bird

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.

— Paulo Coelho

If design is the first signal of human intention.

— William McDonough

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

— Deepak Chopra

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

— John Updike

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

— Hillary Clinton

Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road…

— Ashley Bryan

Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

— Dave Brubeck

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The…

— Agnes Repplier

I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That -…

— Jenna Dewan

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

— Simone Weil

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with…

— Malcolm De Chazal

I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but…

— Stevie Wonder

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which…

— Mukesh Ambani

Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to…

— Paul Davies

Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was…

— Mitt Romney

You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be…

— Ram Dass

If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor.…

— Marion Nestle

My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult…

— Ajahn Brahm

There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just…

— Charli XCX

From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is…

— Meredith Willson

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared.…

— Anonymous

Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling…

— Martin Shaw

Lemurs are good parents but they do it in different ways. I originally studied father care. I was very interested in that…

— Patricia Wright

I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law,…

— William Howard Taft

First of all, we occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and I'm not even talking about the past occupation of them, I'm just talking…

— Oren Moverman