Firsts Quotes
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Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.
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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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I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
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Never settle for second when first is available
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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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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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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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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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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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She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)
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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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I want my first son to be called 'Tommy.' It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson
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A gladiator's first distraction is his last.
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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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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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So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.
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I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
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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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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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I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.
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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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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.
