Firsts Quotes
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We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
Scott Pelley
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
Abel Stevens
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What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.
Van Morrison
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I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.
Anthony Robbins
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Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.
Tony Evans
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You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
C. S. Lewis
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It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
Lucille Ball
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To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.
Deacon Jones
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
William James
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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
William Graham Sumner
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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
Greg Ginn Black Flag
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When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
Baron Vaughn
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What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
Ernest Hemingway
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Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
William Feather
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How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
D. H. Lawrence
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The first person you have to resurrect is yourself
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
Ernest Hemingway
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If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.
David Trumble
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The first thing I do when I get there like all of the players on tour is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.
Karch Kiraly
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
Cynthia Heimel