Firsts Quotes
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There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
W. C. Fields
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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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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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In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
Viswanathan Anand
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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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We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.
William Rehnquist
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Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
William Butler Yeats
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I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey
Rob Zombie
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Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.
Van Morrison
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons. Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
Watchman Nee
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There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.
Vincent Price
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Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else.
Sherman Alexie
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney
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If design is the first signal of human intention.
William McDonough
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For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.
Iain Pears
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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 dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
William O. Douglas
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The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
Dahlia Lithwick
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Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.
Yelawolf
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Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
H. G. Wells
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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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And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
William Eggleston
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I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
Matisyahu
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I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
Quentin Tarantino