Firsts Quotes
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I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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Being, not doing, is my first joy.
Theodore Roethke
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The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
Lois Wyse
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So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
K. Pattabhi Jois
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My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
Whitney Houston
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
C. S. Lewis
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Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
Serge Lang
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
William Sloane Coffin
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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
Etgar Keret
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Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.
R. A. Torrey
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There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
William Cartwright
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Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.
N.D. Wilson
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Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
George Horace Lorimer
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Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.
William Gibson
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An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
Hugo Black
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
Herbie Hancock
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I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.
Joanne Rowling
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The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
Charles F. Haanel
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Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.
Seth Gabel
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
D. H. Lawrence