Quotes & Sayings About Firsts

The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK. — Sandra Bullock

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone. — Hosea Ballou

I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful. — Lana Del Rey

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action. — Franz Kafka

The first 18 holes are extremely difficult. — Matt Kuchar

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience. — Cher

Look at us talking blood and gore like we're on a date sharing our first sexual experience. — Hannah

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions." — Peter Webber

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else. — Henry Hazlitt

The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it. — P.K. Page

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher

My first option is not to run. I am not a runner. I'm a quarterback. — Daunte Culpepper

The first thing you see is the last thing you do. — Helen Van Wyk

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties
one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened. — Virginia Woolf

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, 'No, I'm an actor of the stage.' — Kirk Douglas

Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron, So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action — Daniel Simon

I luv the book first step to forever by justin bieber — Justin Bieber

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem. — Ludwig Von Mises

There's always someone going to come around who can be better than the best. You want to be the first. No one can ever forget the first. — Cyhi The Prynce

Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black ... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under. — Jesse Owens

Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter. — Joshua Reynolds

Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines. — Margaret Atwood

I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose. — Svetlana Khorkina

What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive. — Tom Hayden

Before you go further,
let me tell you what a poem brings,
first, you must know the secret, there is no poem
to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries ... — Juan Felipe Herrera

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet. — James Redfield

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. — Bertrand Russell

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history ... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go. — David B. Coe

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature. — Edward Gibbon

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want. — Shirley Chisholm

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time. — Son House

The first purpose of prayer is to know God. — Charles L. Allen

First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball. — Michael Nesmith

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing. — William Stanley Jevons

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself. — Brian Tracy

The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring. In fact, you think that if your desires are fulfilled your miseries will disappear. In the first place they are never fulfilled; in the second place, if they are fulfilled, nothing is fulfilled by their fulfillment. You remain as empty as you have always been - or even more, because up to now you were occupied with a certain desire; now even that is fulfilled. A deep deep emptiness comes to you. — Rajneesh

It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to think big, want more and achieve it all! — Mark Victor Hansen

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. — Criss Jami

The first question is something immediate
and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. — George Clooney

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue. — Horace

But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty. — Walther Funk

I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with. — Patti Smith

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place. — Robert Grudin

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe. — Arthur W. Pink

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it - but I did I bear it. The question remains: how? — Heinrich Heine

I was five years old the first time I got drunk. — Jack London

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm. — R.C. Sproul

One of the first things I said when I signed on for the show was No hugs! Full House was all based on hugs. — Bob Saget

First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others. — Dalai Lama

Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her
first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider
everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for
love, if they can. — Jane Austen

The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans. — Jim Otto

Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to answer his needs. — Massimo Vignelli

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature. — George Herbert

When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off. — Hal Moore

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed. — Alan Dershowitz

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential. — William Jennings Bryan

If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances. — Kin Hubbard

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck. — Oprah Winfrey

Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability — Howard Snell

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles. — Dan Fogelberg

I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that. — Ron Dellums

'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him. — Conan O'Brien

At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time. — Chris Pirillo

If you aren't practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn't be an entrepreneur. — Robert Kiyosaki

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us — Marshall McLuhan

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. — John Ruskin

Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work. — Richard Hugo

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly. — David Sedaris

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it. — Ornette Coleman

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly. — Jessica Mitford

The first casualty in every war is truth. — Muriel Lester

You must first realize that you are in a dream. Then you must realize that your current dream is a nightmare. — Frederick Lenz

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession. — Ben Harper

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed. — Henry David Thoreau

Sole Alessandra Torre I've had a lot of firsts in the last three years. Today is a new one. First time throwing a three-year-old Birthday party, Hollywood Style. Too bad my sexier-than-sin husband is absolutely no help. And Cocky is in the pool. And Ben is having a panic attack. And Justin is feeding my child sugar at every opportunity. This is past the dirt, and more than just Hollywood. This is our life as Sole. — Alessandra Torre

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time. — Carlos Castaneda

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to! — Bertrand Meyer

Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit. — Barack Obama

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me. — Hank Aaron

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny? — Doug Stanhope

It is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with. — Edward Said

I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food. — Kal Penn

I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a scenario of revolution that first, you know, comes from 1917, that first you take the state power, and then you change things. And we don't realize it's collapsed. — Grace Lee Boggs

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar. — John Wesley

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions. — John Rawls

The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't. — Zig Ziglar

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing. — K.M. Soehnlein

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters. — John Banville

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary. — William Kwai Sun Chow

The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it was about my mother. — David Chase

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that. — Jeremy Scott

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful. — Huey Lewis

Heartbreak is essential. We grow, evolve, and learn about the most beautiful thing ever: Love! My first heartbreak taught me that love is supposed to ADD beauty and happiness to my already love-filled life! — Zulay Henao

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first! — John F. Kennedy

First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river. — Chris Farley

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later. — Ann Landers