Firsts Quotes · Page 55

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

— Walter Scott

The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are…

— Josiah Stamp

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large…

— Jane Goodall

Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger…

— Damian Marley

I love good momentum. It makes everybody happy and in this time that we're living in, especially musically speaking, if you can…

— Charlie Benante

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

— Marc Parent

If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that…

— Robert Mugabe

If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.

— George Vaillant

…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value…

— Spider Robinson

In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance…

— Jon Landau

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states,…

— Sam Ervin

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason,…

— Ford Madox Ford

I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in…

— Dave Barry

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the…

— Stephen King

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called…

— Noam Chomsky

The meal plan was hard at first because I am a snack eater, but the most challenging part is trying to change…

— Ruby Gettinger

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after…

— Malcolm X

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

— Seneca the Younger

I think that this win [Grammy] in particular was a cool moment for me and the director [Emil Nava], because it was…

— Ed Sheeran

Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at…

— Melina Marchetta

Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending…

— Walter E. Williams

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot…

— Leo Ornstein

I don't know if people really care about my opinion on things or how I come up with things, and maybe that's…

— Nick Thune

As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first…

— Ray Dalio

The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

— Alva Myrdal

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

— Robert Motherwell

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So…

— Andrew Hawkins

Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the…

— Richelle Mead

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

— Anonymous

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go…

— Ringo Starr

Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.

— Joyce Meyer

Of course, a lot of businesses want to reach students, so I funded the magazine by selling advertising. I sold something like…

— Richard Branson

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes…

— Evelyn Underhill

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a…

— Rudolf Buitendach