Our Firsts Quotes & Sayings

For long minutes we cried, our grief inconsolable. We mourned the innocence of our childhood love; we grieved as parents of our own children. We agonized in the unfairness of the haphazard and tumultuous world we'd been pushed out into through our mothers' flesh. We wept for the first time, one among many firsts we'd shared, for the sheer emotional pain of bedrock loss. — Larry J. Dunlap

As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please. — Dallas Willard

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

More than 80% of our revenue comes from people viewing ads on mobile devices. Inside Twitter, we talk and think mobile first. — Shailesh Rao

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening. — James A. Garfield

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left. — Itzhak Perlman

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life. — Bob Buford

What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst,
A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst,
Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour,
The first swete Dropp of our long Showre. — Charles Godfrey Leland

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time. — Jean De La Bruyere

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place. — Marc Parent

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first
because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others! — Phyllis Bottome

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening. — Louis Kahn

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence. — Thomas Jefferson

To reach our full potential we must first clear the mind and be present in the flow of life current. — Justin Nozuka

Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first. — Mason Cooley

Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense. And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid. — Rupert Murdoch

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place. — John F. Kerry

God wants us to prosper. Our need, however, is to evaluate things as they should be evaluated - to esteem earthly things lightly - to put first things first. — Kenneth E. Hagin

All our firsts, and our lasts, and everything in between. They swirl and dance on the invisible currents, and then one by one, they disappear to a place they will always be a part of. — Jessi Kirby

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company. — Kevin Plank

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers. — Henry Thomas Buckle

Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century. — Oliver DeMille

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? — Pliny The Elder

Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up. — Cinco Paul

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. — John F. Kennedy

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world. — Laozi

The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence." — Vandana Shiva

Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end. — John Calvin

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others. — Bill Crawford

It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever. — Isaac Hanson

If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing. — Eva Mendes

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us. — Denis Waitley

The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets. — Nancy Brinker

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere. — Theocritus

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

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny. — George Eliot

I tilt my head and ask "What firsts have we
already passed?"
"The easy ones," he says. "First hug, first date, first fight, first time we slept together,
although I wasn't the one sleeping. Now we barely have any left. First kiss. First time to
sleep together when we're both actually awake. First marriage. First kid. We're done
after that. Our lives will become mundane and boring and I'll have to divorce you and
marry a wife who's twenty years younger than me so I can have a lot more firsts and
you'll be stuck raising the kids." He bring his hand to my cheek and smile at me. "So you
see, babe? I'm only doing this for your benefit. The longer I wait to kiss you, the longer
it'll be before I'm forced to leave you high and dry. — Colleen Hoover

Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three
first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity
without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I get along really well with Lars [von Trier] but definitely during our first meetings I was feeling him out and he definitely says some things that are inappropriate and then you kind of get his sense of humour. I really enjoy him. He's one of my favourite people I've met now. So, he's pretty great. — Kirsten Dunst

We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us. — Romano Guardini

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks. — Elie Wiesel

By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization simply fail to exist in the first place. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot. — Mitchell Burgess

At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing ititeration is a way of engineering. — Bre Pettis

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place ... They revolted against much more mild oppression. — Ron Paul

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. — Gary Hamel

We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life. — Guy Finley

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory. — John Wesley

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. — Stewart Dalzell

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead. — Simon Sinek

We always come back to our first love. — Etienne Aigner

Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. We first build a foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. — Neil L. Andersen

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion. — Thomas Malthus

We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code. — Jon Miller

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution. — Samuel Alito

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee. — Hillary Clinton

Morals and lights are our first necessities. — Simon Bolivar

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace. — Mahnaz Afkhami

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election. — Joseph Hall

The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us. — Mike Bickle

We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is. — Steven J. Lawson

We don't care about going 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0. Our first main objective is to go 1-0. That's the only thing we care about. That's the main focus. — Takeo Spikes

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke. — Bob Hope

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time — Tim Harford

We've been proud of the fact that we were known for our music first and it has been what makes us work harder — G-Dragon

Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all. — Alistair Begg

People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
even our first or second problem, maybe the third — Atiku Abubakar

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. — Harvey Milk

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. — Thomas Carlyle

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing ... — Michelangelo Antonioni

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable — Ada Lovelace

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I tilt my head sideways so I can look him straight on. "What firsts have we already passed?" "The easy ones. First hug, first date, first fight, first time we slept together, although I wasn't the one sleeping . Now we barely have any left. First kiss. First time to sleep together when we're both actually awake. First marriage. First kid. We're done after that. Our lives will become mundane and boring and I'll have to divorce you and marry a wife who's twenty years younger than me so I can have a lot more firsts and you'll be stuck raising the kids." He cups my cheek in his hand and smiles at me. "So you see, babe? I'm only doing this for your benefit. The longer I wait to kiss you, the longer it'll be before I'm forced to leave you high and dry."
Hoover, Colleen (2012-12-18). Hopeless (pp. 165-166). Colleen Hoover. Kindle Edition. — Colleen Hoover

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

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

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

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. — Mao Zedong

I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show. — Alicia Keys

First and foremost, we need to go and destroy ISIS. And we need to do this with our Arab friends and our friends in Europe. — John Kasich

I can't kiss you tonight because kissing leads to the next thing, which leads to the next thing, and at the rate we're going, we'll be all out of firsts by next weekend. Don't you want to drag our firsts out a little longer? — Colleen Hoover

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks. — Ann Voskamp

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors. — Jerry Rubin

The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power. — T. B. Joshua

We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!] — Ashley Giles

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature. — Alexander Hamilton

The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC. — John Lennon

We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS ... We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out. — Ted Cruz

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own. — John Calvin

To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again. — Ilchi Lee

Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything. — Israel Houghton

Is any blogger out there saying anything - do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times. — Lindsey Graham

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. — Naomi Watts

There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: Let us drive as far as our graves. — Isak Dinesen

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives. — Jules Feiffer

To feed our people we must first feed our soil — Olusegun Obasanjo

Our first duty is not to be poor. — George Bernard Shaw

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe ... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it. — Henry David Thoreau