Firsts Quotes

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Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from… — Jean-Michel Cousteau
If you want everything, you first have to give everything up. — Laozi
Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their… — Isadora Duncan
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief. — Horace
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. — Hugh Black
Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others,… — Daphne du Maurier
Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first… — Carl Jung
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for… — Miguel de Cervantes
Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you… — Henry Beston
The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather… — Matt Damon
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder… — Jeffrey Sachs
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the… — Martin Sheen
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not… — George Bernard Shaw
I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and… — Howard Schultz
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. — Oliver Goldsmith
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and… — Gary Snyder
A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. My first thought was to rescue two more, but I don't want to go… — Joan Rivers
There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me. — Chris Brown
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the… — LeRoy Neiman
I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye… — Jennifer Ellison
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who commits… — Christopher Reeve

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