Firsts Quotes

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First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports. — Dominique Wilkins
I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back… — Grant Hill
It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote.… — Cory Booker
We'll be getting rid of these people here... First, Mr. Samir Naga... Naga... Naga... Not gonna work here anymore, anyway. — Bob Porter
The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical… — James Dwight Dana
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures… — Jesse L. Greenstein
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition.… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is… — Anthony Kennedy
When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals — Mike Krzyzewski
... In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his creatures, I will say that I was naturally… — Heber C. Kimball
It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is… — Martin Luther
I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer… — James O. Fraser
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first. — Oswald J. Smith
Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success. — Erwin W. Lutzer
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven. — Samuel Rutherford
We have taken a major step forward in providing a new high quality education facility at Longbridge. Not only will the new Bournville College shape… — Mike Murray
In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give… — Ernest L. Boyer
My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen. — Charlaine Harris

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