Firsts Quotes
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Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
William Bartram
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Being, not doing, is my first joy.
Theodore Roethke
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Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
Sarah Dessen
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Every offense is not a hate at first.
William Shakespeare
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Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
William Shakespeare
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You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.
BoA
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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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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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When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.
Tracy Spiridakos
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I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
George Stoneman
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Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.
Wim Wenders
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I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.
Sarah Dessen
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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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History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
Erik Qualman
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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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We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.
Vivek Wadhwa
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You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
Michael Bloomberg
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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.
William James
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I had to go for a mammogram - my first mammogram ever - and It was really scary and I didn't know what to expect.
Monica Potter
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In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
J. D. Salinger
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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
Ernest Hemingway
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
Lou Holtz
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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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The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
Stephen Cole Kleene