Firsts Quotes
20399 Firsts quotes by 9251 unique authors
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As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be…
— Bruce Barton
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The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada…
— Erma Bombeck
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For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the…
— Erma Bombeck
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
— Josh Billings
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One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
— Jack Kornfield
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
— Brooks Atkinson
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.
— Michelle Obama
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But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her…
— Eva Longoria
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Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first…
— Carolyn Maloney
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My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got…
— Justin Bieber
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A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
— Michael Douglas
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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come…
— Sigmund Freud
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
— Charlotte Gray
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first…
— Jennifer O'Neill
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Note that charity is given only to those who seek it, only to those who earnestly pray for it, only to those who are disciples…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.
— Margaret Cho
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When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them…
— Janette Barber
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