First Quotes
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Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing ...
Celia Fremlin
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Her face, at first…just ghostly Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Keith Reid Procol Harum
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I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.
Carol Friedman
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How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?
Arlene Dahl
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La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.
Blaise Pascal
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You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
Neil Peart Rush
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Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.
Mickey Hart
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish.
Tacitus
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There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
Wilfred Burchett
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I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Today I am the President of the Republic, but I will be the first to join the Maquis."
Habib Bourguiba
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When he first came here, he looked like a kid who had given up on life. There was some resentment. The first three years, he still wasn't sure that he had a home.
James Young Styx
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
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To become a leader, you must first become a human being.
Confucius
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'The Last Starfighter' was the first movie I did in the U.S. It was an absolute joy to be a part of it. 'Night of the Comet' was a labor of love. Truly a collaborative effort. I am eternally grateful for the experiences.
Catherine Mary Stewart
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Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
Sophocles
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
Hippocrates
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac
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I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.
Catherine Ashton
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When we first started touring after the release of 'On Through the Night', a lot of people kept calling us a 'punk' band. Obviously they never saw us. Evidently, a paper would assign a writer to cover the show, and the guy would unload his ticket for a few quid, go home and write the review anyway. They all called us 'punk,' because the name sounded that way.
Rick Allen Def Leppard
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In order to finish first, you first have to finish.
Stirling Moss
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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others.
Abraham Lincoln