Firsts Quotes

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It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort, ... Beach cleanups are something… — Ted Danson
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of… — Leonardo da Vinci
Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food. — Henry Ward Beecher
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a… — Henry David Thoreau
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know. — Alexander Pope
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. — Alfred North Whitehead
My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't… — Trey Parker
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to… — Marya Mannes
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. — John Quincy Adams
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first. — Jonathan Swift
The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he… — Maria Montessori
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence… — Maria Montessori
... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This… — Maria Montessori
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. — James Russell Lowell
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… — Samuel Johnson
Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure. — Marilyn Monroe
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the… — Marcel Proust
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… — Charles Caleb Colton
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. — Charles Caleb Colton

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