Top 100 Quotes About Firsts
#1. One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#2. When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We didn't want them to be caricatures of themselves. We wanted them to live and breathe, and grow with the audience and with us.
Jon Hurwitz
#3. Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.
Tony Lema
#4. Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!
Caedmon
#5. With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.
Ray Bradbury
#6. Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
Coretta Scott King
#7. If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.
Ingrid Weir
#8. From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.
Emile Zola
#9. If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen ... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.
Will Smith
#10. New York. Truly, this is the only city that I feel this energy. Everyone is accepted. This is the first place that I felt open and that I can do everything.
Elie Tahari
#12. Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry
" Assault formation!
Jim Butcher
#13. Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.
Janet Macunovich
#14. 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
#15. Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.
Kim Stanley
#16. The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.
Leslie Ludy
#17. The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.
Tina Fey
#18. A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#19. When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.
Eknath Easwaran
#21. The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
William Warburton
#23. Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
[Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
Horace
#24. Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's savoury, white's the treat. Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast.
Mark Corrigan
#25. It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.
Kenzaburo Oe
#26. We can't really understand just how wonderful Heaven will be unless we first know how wonderful each of us will be when we get there.
David Berg
#28. You'll never come second by putting God first.
Brian Houston
#29. 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
#30. My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.
T. J. Miller
#31. It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
Philip Sidney
#32. The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
Ahmet Ertegun
#33. I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.
Howard Wilkinson
#34. I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.
Andrew McMahon
#35. First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
Eleanora Duse
#36. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
#37. I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
#38. He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
George D. Prentice
#39. When I first started, I wasn't really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there.
Josh Duhamel
#40. America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#42. There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
Beatrice Warde
#43. Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.
Yo Gotti
#44. I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.
Richard Davidson
#47. Children notice things first, people later.
Walker Percy
#48. [The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny ...
Edward Gibbon
#49. To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.
Michael Healy
#50. For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.
Frederick Lenz
#51. I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.
Jordan Peele
#52. A slave stands infront of Allah on two occasions. The first during salah, and secondly on the Day of Judgment. Whoseover stands correctly in the first, the second standing will be made easier for him. And whosoever, disregards the first standing, the second standing will be extremely difficult.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#53. Truth is always the first casualty of war.
Aeschylus
#54. I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.
Carl Sagan
#55. He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
Michel De Montaigne
#56. Love won't come through unless the heart is open. To work with an open heart is to love or care for something or someone more than you do for yourself. This is the first step to the divine love that we all are looking for.
Harold Klemp
#58. It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.
Artie Shaw
#59. The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.
Auguste Rodin
#60. Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.
Demetri Martin
#61. I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.
Kurt Angle
#62. We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.
Earl Nightingale
#63. You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
Plato
#64. I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.
Ted Nugent
#65. The average american spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green. six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on.
Megan McCafferty
#66. To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oskar Homolka
#67. Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.
Brie Larson
#68. First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
Maria Montessori
#69. [T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.
James Grant
#70. The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.
Paulo Coelho
#71. I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
Willa Cather
#72. Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
Galileo Galilei
#73. Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time
Tim Harford
#74. I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything!
Zutty Singleton
#75. A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.
William Beebe
#76. 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
#77. Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.
Q-Tip
#78. I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#79. The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.
Thomas Paine
#80. It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.
Chris Frantz
#81. First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
Thomas Watson
#82. The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
Anais Nin
#84. The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
Oswald Chambers
#85. It is reasonable not to make any budget adjustments in the first quarter of 2015
Tatyana Golikova
#86. When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.
Denis Hayes
#87. Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.
Alix Kates Shulman
#88. Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.
Fritjof Capra
#89. The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
Simone Weil
#91. Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
Sergei Prokofiev
#93. The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness ... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.
Eckhart Tolle
#94. Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
Jeff Greenfield
#95. To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.
Robin Crow
#97. First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#98. I wonder if anybody ever decided to commit suicide, then thought; but first I'm going to stop by that taco place I like so much.
Dov Davidoff
#99. I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
Agnes Denes
#100. I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.
Tamara De Lempicka
