Top 48 Quotes About Firsts And Lasts
#1. The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#2. I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.
Duncan Roy
#3. The first, the middle and the last thing to do is to pray.
Henry B. Eyring
#4. I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day.
Dan Mazer
#6. Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential
Malala Yousafzai
#7. All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
Robert Browning
#8. What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become timeless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. First and last follow each other.
Laozi
#10. I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.
Kevin Moffett
#11. These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
Lucretius
#12. Work does not kill you, food does. God does not kill you, food does. Food is your first and last enemy. If you take in more than you can handle, it takes all of your energy to digest it.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#13. The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
Wynton Marsalis
#14. Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.
Seth Godin
#15. The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.
Hunter S. Thompson
#16. It is nothing, to give one's life for Ireland. I'm not the first and maybe I won't be the last. What's my life compared with the cause?
Kevin Barry
#17. You seem to be the one for firsts," his breath caught, "and lasts and always.
Aleksandr Voinov
#20. I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.
Jan Brett
#21. However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
Peter Quennell
#22. Your mother's heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.
Dave Brubeck
#23. A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
Simon Sinek
#24. There's a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#25. I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last,
Michael Grimm
#26. All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.
Hugh Miller
#27. Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
J.C. Ryle
#29. She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.
Judy Blume
#30. Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
Anne Bradstreet
#31. The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.
Anabel Jensen
#32. 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
#34. You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.
Robert Breault
#36. Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.
Sir Fulke Greville
#37. 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
#38. He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only
Cinda Williams Chima
#39. The first shall be last and the last shall be first,
Killah Priest
#40. The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
Jackson Browne
#41. If you learn to respond as if it's the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.
David Steindl-Rast
#42. Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.
Jay-Z
#43. You know, last night it was so cold that my pillow and my sheets fought to see who got under the blankets first.
Red Skelton
#44. When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
Hal Moore
#45. Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.
Rex Stout
#46. I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
Muhammad Ali
#47. The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
Henry Fielding
#48. The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
Eudora Welty
