First Hand Quotes

86 quotes by 76 authors

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. — Joey Skaggs
If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that… — Julia Bacha
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's… — Charles S. Maier
The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st… — Unknown Author
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and… — Gregory Bateson
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. — C.S. Lewis
Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved… — Susan Sontag
The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience. — Evelyn Underhill
There is nothing like first-hand evidence. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and… — Michael McCaul
I know first hand what its like to be called names and to be affected by things. They would call me fat, they would call… — Demi Lovato
Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way… — Nancy O'Dell
I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful.… — Ariana Grande
Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has… — D. H. Lawrence
As a long-time British Airways advisor, I have seen first-hand that as a company they are committed to innovation, entrepreneurship and the Bay Area community.… — Rhonda Abrams
I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the… — James F. Byrnes
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. — Sargent Shriver
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after… — Mahatma Gandhi
Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every… — Dave Obey

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