Firsts Quotes
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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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Very often the music comes first.
Neil Diamond
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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
William Ames
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Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"
Jim Gaffigan
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My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.
William Gibson
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I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.
William Julius Wilson
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The first person you have to resurrect is yourself
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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Every offense is not a hate at first.
William Shakespeare
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First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
Eleonora Duse
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Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'
Kristen Stewart
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Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.
George Wigram
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The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
Carolyn Wells
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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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Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.
C. S. Lewis
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No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.
Ranulph Fiennes
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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.
Heather Donahue
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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
Richard John Neuhaus
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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
Vint Cerf
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I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.
Richard Masur
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
William Makepeace Thackeray