Firsts Quotes

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In order to make friends you must first be friendly — Dale Carnegie
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk.… — Lord Byron
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular. — Charles Caleb Colton
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't… — Clarence Day
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to… — Nicholas A. Christakis
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.… — Lillian Gish
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of… — Sam Keen
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." — Robert Breault
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside… — Jean Cocteau
First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create… — Robert Breault
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. — Charles J. Givens
The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first. — Drake
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus… — Arthur Eddington
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a… — Art Linkletter
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it… — Angela Carter
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' — Adrienne Rich
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers… — Theodore White
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. — Herbert Spencer
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but… — Nikola Tesla
The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the… — Marlo Morgan
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it. — Seneca the Younger
In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the… — Morihei Ueshiba

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