Firsts Quotes · Page 32

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

— Chuck Klosterman

Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body…

— Swami Vivekananda

I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.

— Michael Craig-Martin

At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me,…

— Steve Martin

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It…

— Mario Batali

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

— Charles William Eliot

Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than…

— Henry Rollins

If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing…

— C. J. Mahaney

Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap.

— Yamaoka Tesshu

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off…

— Will Smith

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a…

— Candace Kita

[Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with…

— John Lewis

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was…

— Ayelet Waldman

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

— John Bevere

Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to…

— John Newton

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that…

— Kim Alexis

Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free…

— Brian Tracy

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

— Ringo Starr

In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and…

— Felix Frankfurter

When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn…

— Ingrid Law

It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

— Clifford Stoll

I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had…

— Anonymous

But man invents nothing God did not create first.

— Mitch Albom

I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would…

— Suw Charman-Anderson

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

— Martin Sheen