Top 100 First Man Quotes
#1. Adam was the first man, Eve the first woman, Satan the first consultant, and God the first entrepreneur.
Dee Hock
#2. I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!
Terry Pratchett
#3. Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#4. I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.
Philippe Petit
#5. I don't see any god up here first man in space, while in space.
Yuri Gagarin
#6. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. We're particularly anxious to get our hands on Pioneer 10 - the first man-made object to escape from the Solar System.
Arthur C. Clarke
#9. Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.
Charlton Heston
#10. He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who she was before anyone had the opportunity to label her. She was supposed to be his "little girl".
Anais Torres
#11. You may have trapped me in this... but you aren't the first man to underestimate me, so may I advise you to start treating me with a little more respect, King Noam.
Sara Raasch
#12. In the next two years he would sit on ninety committees, chairing twenty-five. No other congressman came even remotely close to carrying such a heavy work load. Soon he was acknowledged "to be the first man in the House," as Benjamin Rush reported.28
John Ferling
#13. And Stormgren hoped that when Karellen was free to walk once more on Earth, he would one day come to these northern forests, and stand beside the grave of the first man to be his friend.
Arthur C. Clarke
#14. I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?
Vince Gironda
#15. This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.
Wilson Greatbatch
#16. Thomas Edison was not, Paul thought, the first man to become rich by inventing something clever. Rather, he was the first man to build a factory for harnessing cleverness.
Graham Moore
#17. No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological. A woman with an apple in her hand is the first woman, the only woman in the world. And he is the first man, he stumbles on love and he cant shake it,never,ever,ever..
Pia Pera
#18. The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#19. Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night
J.M. Barrie
#20. Even though you're not by me side, Night, you will forever be my first man, my Zettai Kareshi
Yuu Watase
#21. A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.
David Jeremiah
#22. A man turns to the guy next to him who's covered in bandages from head to toe and asks "What happened?". "I fell through a glass window," explains the man. The first man says: "Lucky you were wearing all those bandages."
Frank Carson
#23. The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself
who according to the Rabbins was also the first author
not being an original; the only original author being God.
Herman Melville
#24. She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.
Guy De Maupassant
#25. Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.
Patsy Kensit
#26. The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.
Gary Zukav
#27. I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all.
His passion had been artificial.
His pursuit of me had been choreographed.
Charlaine Harris
#28. The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie
#29. This was after stew. But then, so is everything. When the first man crawled out of the slime and went to make his home on land, what he had for dinner that night was stew.
William Goldman
#30. It was Wilbur Larch who was the first man in Maine to call a television what it was: an idiot box.
John Irving
#31. Then draw near to nature. Pretend you are the very first man and then write what you see and experience, what you love and lose.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#32. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
#33. The first man he came to was running about in a great hurry, as if his thoughts were several yards in advance of his body, which they could never drag on fastt enough.
Thomas Hardy
#34. I'm not good at making promises. But I would like you to know I've never been serious about a girl until I met your daughter, and now that I know I'm the first man she's brought home, I'm aiming to be the last.
Katy Evans
#35. My heart had healed with the balm of another, love blossoming, love renewed, reunited in the arms of the first man who'd treasured it, and treasured it still.
J.B. Hartnett
#36. Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it, this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What do do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
Emil Cioran
#37. You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.
Nicholas Sparks
#38. A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
Stephen Crane
#39. Everything was a miracle until we solved it ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was witnessing a miracle - and the first man who ever described a flying fish was doubtless called a liar.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#40. The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.
Roman Payne
#42. I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
Harrison Ford
#43. I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.
Colin Firth
#44. Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.
John Agar
#45. A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
James M. Barrie
#46. As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.
John Calvin
#47. To be honest, Nick, I'd be surprised to hear these three speaking of having their heart stolen ... with an attitude like this ... I'm guessing this lot is much more interested in who will be the first man to have his heart stolen
they don't seem the wallflower type.
Sarah MacLean
#48. But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
Robert E. Howard
#49. I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.
Destinee Hardwick
#50. The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan.
John F. Kennedy
#51. A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
David Hilbert
#52. I grew up expecting to see the first man land on the moon. It never occurred to me that I'd see the last one. We thought there'd be a moon base.
Terry Pratchett
#53. In a world where one man's trash is another man's treasure, I'd argue that the first man wasn't thinking creatively enough about his trash.
Justin Slater
#54. When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.
Elijah Muhammad
#55. Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#56. If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.
Mark Spitz
#57. Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
Alexei Sayle
#58. You see, he was to become the first man I fell in love with. Only, falling in love doesn't always mean rainbows and butterflies. This is the true story of my life and how love changed everything!
Brenda Novak
#59. Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you.
Ozzy Osbourne
#60. As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Lady Gregory
#61. Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.
William Hartston
#62. Grandma married him because he was the first man she'd ever met who wasn't affected by her telepathy. This is the sort of thing that Internet dating sites never have a field for.
Seanan McGuire
#63. The Devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan first came to the first man in the form of a snake and whispered to Adam that true happiness was not to be found in prayer but in Eve's cunt.
Joe Hill
#64. The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#65. The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.
Gerard De Nerval
#66. O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.
Edward Dyer
#67. Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.
Martin Niemoller
#68. I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.
Matthew Henson
#69. Splendid, replied the man by the well. But the first man pronounced the word as a young man might say it about a woman, and the second as an old man might say it about the weather, not without sincerity, but certainly without fervor.
G.K. Chesterton
#70. God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#72. Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.
Robert H. Goddard
#73. Colt always wanted his first man-on-man sexual encounter to be with Jace Montgomery. The current problem? Now that he'd had Jace once, he wanted more.
Kindle Alexander
#74. I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
Adam Ant
#75. The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#76. Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)
William Goldman
#77. The entire point of a new theory is that it is unprecedented; the first man to invent a jet aircraft could scarcely submit examples of jet aircraft flying in the past.
Stefan Molyneux
#79. You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
Thomas A Kempis
#80. The first man to understand the extraordinary magical power of applying mathematical calculation to things in nature was an Italian called Galileo Galilei.
E.H. Gombrich
#81. I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
Julius Caesar
#82. The first man stepped up to the open door. All the men had been ordered to look out at the horizon, not straight down, for obvious psychological reasons.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#83. Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history.
Eoin Colfer
#84. But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.
Randy Pausch
#85. The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
H.L. Mencken
#86. Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.
Ayn Rand
#87. My trifles escape me with as little gravity as they deserve. Good luck to them for that. I would part with them at once, however low their price. I do not buy and sell them for more than they weigh. I speak to my writing-paper exactly as I do to the first man I meet.
Michel De Montaigne
#88. My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.
Amy Klobuchar
#89. You are not the first man to miss a woman's more subtle communication ... They think they are waving when we see only the calm sea, and pretty soon everybody drowns.
Helen Simonson
#90. I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.
Walter Cronkite
#91. Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He did not say, 'It seems to me,' and he did not take orders from those who say, 'In my opinion.
Ayn Rand
#92. The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.
Edward Jenks
#93. Are there rules?'
'No gods, no staffs, first man to stay down for the count loses and we suspend the contest if the building collapses.'
- on magical duels
Ben Aaronovitch
#94. There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.
David Diringer
#95. He was the first military remote viewer - the first man to transcend time and space for the purpose of viewing selected targets and collecting intelligence information. I learned early to rely on his counsel. What he said was always true: no lies, no exaggerations, no betrayal, and no ego.
David Morehouse
#96. I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.
Sylvia Plath
#97. My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean ... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
Bertrand Piccard
#98. I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.
LL Cool J
#99. Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.
Epictetus
