Firsts Quotes · Page 96

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

— Charles Dickens

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

— Jesse Jackson

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

— Tom Hiddleston

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

— James K. A. Smith

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

— Matthew Woodring Stover

The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first.

— Drake

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

— Bill Walsh

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

— Stephen Hawking

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

— Smiley Blanton

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

— Fran Lebowitz

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

— Julie Benz

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

— Anonymous

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

— Sophocles

I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

— Patricia Piccinini

Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.

— Bill Hicks

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

— Alexander Pope

With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.

— Ladyhawke

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

— Edward J. Fraughton

The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

— Dan John

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

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

— Robin Williams

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

— Richard Price

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

— Veerappa Moily

I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

— Wes Anderson

Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.

— Kendall Schmidt

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

— Pol Pot

You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.

— Demetri Martin

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

— Roy H. Williams

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

— Billy Campbell

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

— Teresa of Avila

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

— Moliere

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.

— Samuel I. Prime

It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

— Evanna Lynch

Yes I am very spiritual cos I believe that in everything I do, I have to put God first,

— Nadia Buari

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

— Mary Harron