Our First Quotes
369 quotes by 326 authors
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You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help…
— Geoff Davis
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It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own…
— Greg Ginn
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Look at us talking blood and gore like we're on a date sharing our first sexual experience.
— Hannah
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Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called…
— Henri Nouwen
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Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of…
— Kevin DeYoung
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Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can…
— Henri Nouwen
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We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more…
— Albert Schweitzer
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
— Adam Gopnik
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According to a new book coming out by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, apparently when he was in high school, President Obama smoked large amounts of…
— Jay Leno
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I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for our principles, and…
— George W. Bush
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During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them…
— Stephen Covey
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Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have…
— Judah Smith
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There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American…
— John Breaux
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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President…
— Stephen Ambrose
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So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very…
— Milos Forman
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Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in…
— Bill Shuster
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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China.…
— Hu Shih
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In those early days of our relationship though, I always thought that she was so perfect that there had to be a catch. But there…
— Ronan O'Brien
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The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and…
— Anne Sexton
Who Wrote These Our First Quotes
326 authors contributed a total of 369 Our First Quotes, led by these top contributors: