Firsts Quotes

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Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose. — David Pleat
If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one. — Nigel Worthington
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. — Edmund Burke
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that… — James Russell Lowell
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and,… — David Mamet
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an… — Savielly Tartakower
By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged… — Benjamin Franklin
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game — Wilhelm Steinitz
It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer — Mikhail Tal
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game — Siegbert Tarrasch
I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of… — Siegbert Tarrasch
I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps — Michael Phelps
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best. — Joe DiMaggio
The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated. — Jimmy Armfield
When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me… — Glenn Roeder
Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies. — Unknown Author
English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first… — Cristiano Ronaldo
In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen. — David Perkins
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow. — George Washington Cable
So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided… — Minnie Pearl
Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third. — Frances Elliott Clark
To create, one must first question everything. — Eileen Gray

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