First Man Quotes

81 quotes by 74 authors

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. — Barbara Bush
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants… — Adam Ant
I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in… — Vince Gironda
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib… — James M. Barrie
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon. — Buzz Aldrin
Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate… — Charlton Heston
You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue,… — Thomas a Kempis
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster. — Shirley Chisholm
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. — Stephen Crane
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate… — Emile M. Cioran
O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou. — Edward Dyer
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is...The biggest one in the whole Bible is God...I mean,… — Kenneth Copeland
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.… — Robert Graves
My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group. — Amy Klobuchar
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. — Roderick Haig-Brown
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. — Gary Zukav

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