Firsts Quotes
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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that the Americans had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii.
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The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
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Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.
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If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.
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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.
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
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You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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A second-class is a first-class mistake.
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Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
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To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.
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That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
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I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.
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I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.
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Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
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Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
