Firsts Quotes · Page 776

Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes.…

— Lynn Austin

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

— Ayn Rand

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not…

— John Henrik Clarke

The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end…

— Bryan Adams

Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

— Anonymous

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

— Larry Gelbart

I loved working with him [Justin Chadwick]. He was very smart in how he assembled the people around him and had a…

— Eric Bana

The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can…

— Eckhart Tolle

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities,…

— Winston Churchill

I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my…

— Leslie West

If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. Just make sure you clear the bold move with…

— Christopher Titus

The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I…

— Sara Coleridge

The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest…

— Vandana Shiva

Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such…

— Bertrand Russell

At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting…

— Jill Douglas

I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures,…

— Sufjan Stevens

This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong…

— John F. Kennedy

First of all, i'm not an actor - I'm an asshole.

— Chelsea Handler

The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it.…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an…

— Derek Jeter

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

— Anonymous

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so…

— Garet Garrett

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music,

— Akon

As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there…

— Raul Hilberg

First of all, Jericho...Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back!

— Triple H

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the…

— Marcus Sakey

I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on…

— Nathan Lane

First you must have the images, then come the words.

— Robert James Waller

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

— Mark Twain

[ Tom Cruise] that kind of employee that's first to arrive, last to leave.

— Patrick Heusinger

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

— Thomas Hobbes

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.

— Sylvia Plath

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

— Rafal Blechacz

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with…

— Bobby McFerrin

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an…

— Hjalmar Branting

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

— Fran Lebowitz

[The Women's Room] was the first thing I read that explained a lot of the feelings I was having and a lot…

— June Diane Raphael

The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth…

— Theodore Hesburgh

The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions,…

— Stephen Leacock