Firsts Quotes

20399 Firsts quotes by 9251 unique authors

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes… — Ambrose Bierce
Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the -… — Joe Biden
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. — Theodor Adorno
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another. — Buffalo Bill
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made… — Buffalo Bill
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began… — Buffalo Bill
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first… — Josh Billings
If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the… — Larry Bird
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard… — Andrea Bocelli
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people. — Jacqueline Bisset
I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks. — Bjork
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and… — Bjork
My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't… — Lewis Black
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons… — Harry A. Blackmun
My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock. — Selma Blair
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children… — Tony Blair
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item. — Sara Blakely
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill. — Aeschylus
I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the… — Mary J. Blige
God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody. — Mary J. Blige
You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect. — Mary J. Blige
From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration… — Mary J. Blige
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to… — Orlando Bloom
Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's… — Orlando Bloom
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those… — Michael Bloomberg

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