Firsts Quotes

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Sound is the first thing that we tune into. — Lee Konitz
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. — Barry Commoner
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. — Clarence Day
First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals. — Victor Hugo
I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle. — Sean Penn
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen." — Paul Tillich
First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet. — Unknown Author
This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children… — Iyanla Vanzant
~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just… — Thandie Newton
~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids… — Angie Harmon
~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?...… — Jodie Foster
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped… — Mark Twain
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel. — Ambrose Bierce
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell… — Leo Tolstoy
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. — Arundhati Roy
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of… — Sydney J. Harris
In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life-one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in… — Bill Moyers
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the… — Karl Kraus

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