Top 100 First And Foremost Quotes
#1. What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.
John S. Watson
#2. The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
Auguste Rodin
#3. First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.
Kim Mathers
#4. Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
Horst Koehler
#5. It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.
David Wroblewski
#6. I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
Bruce LaBruce
#7. Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
James C. Collins
#8. First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.
Adam Arkin
#9. Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
Jim DeMint
#10. Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.
Jon Katz
#11. First and foremost, I am a mom. I get the most fulfillment being with my family.
Mallika Chopra
#12. I shall always think of myself first and foremost ... as a hunter.
Abraham Lincoln
#13. First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.
Bell Hooks
#14. First and foremost, there is one God, and his name does not matter. Yahweh, Ahuramazda, Zeus, Aten, it does not matter at all.
Anne Rice
#15. I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
Pierce Brosnan
#16. According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.
Wayne Mack
#17. When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.
Harry Belafonte
#19. Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
James C. Collins
#20. I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.
Candice Olson
#21. You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.
Steve Pavlina
#22. The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They were Americans first and foremost, and so were the people they saved.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#23. I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.
Joe Carnahan
#24. But she did believe that the fundamentals of most people remained the same throughout their lifetimes. People who were generous usually remained generous, unless life taught them not to be. And people who saw the world through the prism of their own needs first and foremost would always be that way.
Sarah Mayberry
#25. I agree with Rand that human nature is selfish, that we should help ourselves first and foremost ... Where I differ with her is that I think we can and should help ourselves and others at the same time as a conscious goal.
Robert Peate
#26. I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
Diana Ross
#27. It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.
Vince Carter
#28. The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.
Jean-Pierre Rives
#29. Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends. Any other assessment of the situation is mere idealism.
Jacques Ellul
#30. I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.
Kathryn Lasky
#31. A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself.
Sri Aurobindo
#32. I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.
Pharrell Williams
#33. thinker sees in his own actions attempts and questionings to obtain information about something or other; success and failure are answers to him first and foremost.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time.
Sean Bean
#35. I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
Tift Merritt
#36. I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.
John B. Hood
#37. Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost.
Michelle Obama
#38. To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.
Orhan Pamuk
#39. First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
Mikheil Saakashvili
#40. Sow yourself first and foremost in something today
Sunday Adelaja
#41. My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly, it's been a long road and very difficult journey. But I'm just happy that after all these years we were able to win and reach the goal that I had come here for.
Hideki Matsui
#42. I write for myself first and foremost, but I hope that others will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Shannon DuBey
#43. My definition of prayer is simply communicating with God. It's a love relationship first and foremost. Prayer is baring your soul to the One who loved you before you even knew of Him and letting Him speak to your heart.
Stormie O'martian
#44. If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
Nellie Melba
#45. Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#46. First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.
Barry Richards
#47. My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.
Fergie
#48. Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
J. Michael Straczynski
#49. True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.
Kevin Allen
#50. Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children.
Bill Hybels
#51. Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
Warren G. Bennis
#52. The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.
Wynton Marsalis
#53. The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.
Big Boi
#54. God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.
Amy Weber
#56. Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
Tariq Ramadan
#57. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
Ian Anderson
#58. I'm first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That's where I have a deal. That's where I've been for years. So I don't really interact too much with other studios and do things with other studios and I don't necessarily read scripts from other studios.
Todd Phillips
#59. The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.
Steve Brown
#60. 'The Watch' is first and foremost a comedy, but since I got to shoot the film using elements from the sci-fi genre, I wanted to make sure the alien didn't look goofy. I got to make a real alien that looks dangerous. That was a big plus for me because I got to do something really fun and cool.
Akiva Schaffer
#61. The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.
Ravi Zacharias
#62. I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man ... what guy would sign on for that?
Michael Ealy
#63. This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.
Joe Theismann
#64. I can't find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners.
Rob Bell
#65. You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.
Janina Gavankar
#66. As first and foremost a character actor, I've always resisted the temptation to cure any of the people I've played or make them lovable in any way; you've just got to celebrate them for what they are.
Martin Clunes
#67. I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
Paloma Faith
#68. At that age, I was, first and foremost, a thing to be judged, and that shifted the power in every interaction onto the other person. The
Emma Cline
#69. A quota for women always amounts to a failure of politics. For me, economics is first and foremost the ability to act freely without state rules. That's why I believe quotas should only be used as a last resort.
Kristina Schroder
#70. My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.
Cole Hauser
#71. We "talk" relationship but we "live" religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature tends toward living a relationship with God as if it were a religion
Mark Cowper-Smith
#72. First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.
Anthony Hemingway
#73. Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.
James C. Collins
#74. First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.
Donald Trump
#75. I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.
Lucinda Williams
#76. My books have always been safe spaces, sanctuaries for Queer folk, first and foremost, but all are welcome.
Andrew Demcak
#77. The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
Philip Kerr
#78. A Jewish deli should specialize in, first and foremost, Yiddish foods, the foods of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. So, if it's a place that specializes in pizza or chicken wings or diner food and then does a corned beef sandwich on the side, it's not a Jewish delicatessen.
David Sax
#79. First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
Victoria Beckham
#80. I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#81. First and foremost, I just want to give a huge thanks to the fans who have been behind me.
Paul George
#82. When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters - first and foremost - how they behave.
Malcolm Gladwell
#83. The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.
Marc Guggenheim
#84. My top styling tips for brides are, first and foremost, to be careful not to go overboard with makeup. The goal is to look like yourself, just a bit enhanced!
Reem Acra
#85. Money talks, bullshit walks. First and foremost the magazine had to pay its way.
David Lagercrantz
#86. First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.
Terence Winter
#87. 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
#88. The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.
Arnon Grunberg
#89. It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.
Juliet Mills
#90. To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.
Sri Aurobindo
#92. Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn't buy this house. First and foremost I'm a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.
Rush Limbaugh
#93. It was interesting to note that higher standards were seen not as an investment in students; they were seen, first and foremost, as a threat to teachers.
Amanda Ripley
#94. For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.
Frantz Fanon
#95. I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#96. Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
Marilyn Hacker
#97. I know what it takes to be a good boyfriend. Time, first and foremost. To be there for someone and be involved in their life.
Matthew Morrison
#98. I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
Stanley Tucci
#99. I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
Jack Brickhouse
#100. First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.
John Podesta
