Top 100 Come First Quotes
#1. I stopped for a moment, biting the inside of my cheek. This was the hardest part. I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel.
Charlaine Harris
#2. In science, it is not speed that is the most important. It is the dedication, the commitment, the interest and the will to know something and to understand it - these are the things that come first.
Eugene Wigner
#3. The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.
Swami Vivekananda
#4. People who come first in class never get good marks in the report card of Life. After all who asks you your CGPA on your last day?
Laksh Kishore
#5. Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and serveice are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first.
Anne Graham Lotz
#6. To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#8. The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Tom Stoppard
#10. Is - it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning knowledge, which is looked upon as the instrument by which to take possession of the Absolute, or as the means through which to get a sight of it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#11. Throughout my training we always had a mantra; They come first. If I had really and truly screwed up my future, I'd have a new mantra; A comes first. Then B, C, D ...
Richelle Mead
#12. The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you need, it will be so.
Donald Curtis
#13. Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.
Richard Branson
#14. I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first
Chris Higgins
#15. I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.
Phillip Phillips
#16. Trust me, if I did something, you wouldn't be asking. You'd definitely be feeling it for days to come." His green gaze shimmers, challenging me. "I might be a jerk, but I'm the kind of jerk who always lets the woman come first. And not just once.
J.C. Reed
#17. As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.
Jim Lynch
#18. I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.
Derek Jeter
#19. Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.
Molly Ringwald
#20. The people always come first, right after family. Love is more important than power, and leaders serve others.
Milly Taiden
#21. I will be loyal to my Clan above everything. What I want doesn't matter. The Clan must always come first.
Erin Hunter
#22. Come first and then I'd like to fuck you hard.
J.A. Huss
#23. To master an actual technique, mental culture should come first.
Acquiring a technique requires a careful, modest, non-mean, free and attentive mind. In other words a player should do his utmost and nothing less.
Kyuzo Mifune
#24. The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
Bob Riley
#25. If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian.
Trevor Noah
#26. I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.
Jason Alexander
#27. My family are everything to me. They come first in everything I do.
Nigel Barker
#28. True healing must come first at the Soul level ... prayer aligns our souls with God ... By aligning ourselves with God - this highest possible state of unconditional love, joy, and wholeness - we can overcome anything, be healed of all afflictions.
Rosemary Ellen Guiley
#29. I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
Haile Gebrselassie
#30. The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.
Graham Greene
#33. If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.
Herb Kelleher
#34. Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
Oliver Heaviside
#35. Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.
Meg Tilly
#36. I think I'll let you come first." His voice is gravelly. "Then I'm going to rip you clean in half.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#37. Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.
Angelina Jolie
#38. Of course I fall. Yet, I incessantly blame my falls on circumstance so that I can deny my own inadequacy and therefore remain my own god. And so, I am left to ask which will come first, the fall that kills me or the surrender that saves me?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.
Gerard Way
#40. The idea should come first, the startup should come second.
Sam Altman
#41. I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.
Chet Faker
#42. To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace.
Virginia Henley
#43. Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
Billy Gardell
#44. So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
Kelly Preston
#45. She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should be. She's blonde and beautiful, she's got the most incredible legs - etcetera, etcetera. And she's French as well. (on Brigitte Bardot)
Rod Stewart
#46. Self love is an ocean
and your heart is a vessel. Make it full,
and any excess will spill over
into the lives of the people
you hold dear. But you must come first.
Beau Taplin
#47. You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first.
Teresa Mummert
#48. It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.
Angie Harmon
#49. In our youth, we may have ridiculed the cost-of-living-index family, with their house, two cars, and two kids, but today we are pro-family. We have seen the damage done by the previous generation and have doubled our efforts when it comes to caring for our families. Our children come first.
Gudjon Bergmann
#50. Redemption must come last before it can come first
Aaron Ozee
#51. In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
Daley Thompson
#52. The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable.
Joseph Fletcher
#53. The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.
Donald Trump
#54. If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.
Gisele Bundchen
#55. to most students, what sets little boys and girls apart is all exterior: pants versus skirts. That, and the knowledge that those with pants always come first.
Jenny Nordberg
#56. Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
Clive Owen
#57. [Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.
Libby Houston
#58. Engineers naturally tend to focus first on the product and then on its users. For an anthropologist, it's the exact reverse: people come first, then the product.
Guruprasad Madhavan
#59. My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.
Monica Denise Brown
#60. And I wanted that - to come first in somebody's life. Isn't that what we all want?
Lee Nichols
#61. Wrath would always come first for him. It was true for all the Brothers. And considering what Wrath had done to the game room, that was not a bad thing.
J.R. Ward
#62. My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
Laraine Day
#63. You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
Karl Lagerfeld
#64. The relationship must come first or it will not last.
Chris Prentiss
#65. Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
Jonathan Haidt
#66. I'm going to kick his ass for touching you," he growls. "And for wrecking my bike."
"I'm glad I came first in that sentence."
"Baby, you always come first.
Suzanne Young
#68. Reasons come first, answers second. It seems that life has a mysterious quirk of camouflaging the answers in such a way that they become apparent only to those who are inspired enough to look for them - who have reasons to look for them.
Jim Rohn
#69. Moreover, in those instances where the political success of a minority group has come first, the result has often been slower socioeconomic progress.
Jason L. Riley
#70. Knowing who you are in the world need to come first in identifying yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#71. Since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?
E. E. Cummings
#72. In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
Bertrand Russell
#73. If love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.
Robin Hobb
#74. I can't do that. I can't turn my emotions off and on like that. I'm either all in or all out. And if you can't do that - if I don't come first, then for God's sake, leave me alone.
Aileen Erin
#75. My children come first and the career comes in around that.
Diana Ross
#76. The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.
Angelina Jolie
#77. With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.
Eileen Myles
#78. I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting places to set my books. But as the characters come first, who they are will usually dictate where a book is set.
Kate Walker
#79. I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.
Carol Shields
#80. I tend to write at the piano, but usually the melody and lyrics come first. Like, I'll be in the shower, and I'll start singing, and the melody and the lyric will just come out. Then I'll quickly try to finish the shower, try to remember it, record it on my phone and save it for the studio.
Eliza Doolittle
#81. Either way I don't come first, which for some stupid reason bothers hell out of me, having grown up with the notion that I always had to be number one. Family heritage, don't you know?
Erich Segal
#82. In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
Marya Mannes
#83. But there is one constant, one thing you can always count on: that not only does love come first, but at the end, it is the only thing that remains.
Emily Giffin
#84. My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relationship. This is because friends should always come first.
Holly Smale
#85. What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
Danica McKellar
#86. We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first.
Haruki Murakami
#87. There's no magic for getting into the groove ... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
Phil Collins
#88. Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course, then my work.
Andrea Davis Pinkney
#89. I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
Jacki Weaver
#90. The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.
Jon Postel
#91. Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.
Nalini Singh
#92. You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.
Dave Ramsey
#93. I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.
Chris Kirkpatrick
#94. I don't think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most important part of fiction. Without it, what's the point? If all you care about is form, become a critic.
Percival Everett
#95. And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#96. It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'.
Audrey Hepburn
#97. If I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly ... Always, the soil must come first.
Marion Dudley Cran
#98. Your people come first, and if you treat them right, they'll treat the customers right.
Herb Kelleher
#99. Yes," said Jalem as he returned to his brushing. "You've obviously done a superb job so far. Tell me, do I need to make an appointment to try and kill Drothe, or is it simply on a first-come, first-served basis? I can never keep kin etiquette straight.
Douglas Hulick
#100. It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
Bruce Lee
