Firsts Quotes
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Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
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Never settle for second when first is available
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I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.
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The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.
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Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.
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First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
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The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.
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Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.
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A gladiator's first distraction is his last.
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Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
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Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!
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She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)
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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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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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I want my first son to be called 'Tommy.' It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson
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I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.
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So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.
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No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful . . .
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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
