Firsts Quotes

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Song
  • Boy
  • Boys

• Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Up
  • Drunk
  • Cleaning

• You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Depression
  • Nails

• My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Boys

• Don't 'just do it.' First, plan it, then do it.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Firsts
  • Gratitude
  • Plans

• You have first to experience what you want to express.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Want
  • Firsts
  • Motivational

• In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Heaven
  • Courses
  • Pasta

• [I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • God
  • Career
  • Dream

• The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Peace
  • Doe

• Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Next

• My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Baby
  • Missing
  • Names

• A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Civilization
  • Complicated
  • Passages

• When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

  

  Stephen Cole Kleene
  • Listening
  • Philosophy
  • Discussion

• Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Time
  • History
  • Mother

• My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Reason
  • Husband
  • Should

• The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • God
  • Help

• You have to be the first, best or different.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Different
  • Firsts

• I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

  

  Violante Placido
  • Writing
  • Albums
  • Gigs

• I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

  

  John Travolta
  • Time
  • Bike
  • Moved

• You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.

  

  George Foreman
  • Doors
  • Behinds
  • Boxes

• Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Birthday
  • Royalty
  • Toady

• Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

  

  Carole King
  • May
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • School
  • High

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