Firsts Quotes

20399 Firsts quotes by 9251 unique authors

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. — Jean Toomer
War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for… — Alfred Hermann Fried
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious… — Frances Perkins
For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged… — Ernestine Rose
Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the… — Bob Brown
Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one… — Lord Byron
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. — Henry Ward Beecher
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you — Charles Dickens
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. — Robert Collier
Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and… — Brett Favre
Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but… — Justin Guarini
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we… — John Lewis
When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One — Shania Twain
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville
My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film. — Sally Phillips
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body. — Yagyu Munenori
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every… — B. C. Forbes
I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist… — Unknown Author
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than… — Jimmy Carter
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. — Abraham Lincoln
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts… — Lou Holtz
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt) — Sylvia Plath
They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note) — Vachel Lindsay
By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose… — Antonin Artaud
I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense… — Emma Stone

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