Quotes about firsts
firsts biology form
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. Wilhelm Ostwald
firsts ladders climbs
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. Walter Scott
firsts affair imagine
It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had. Yitzhak Rabin
firsts first-time sentences
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. Winston Churchill
firsts columbus taxpayers
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn?t know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.
firsts film minutes
One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into. William Mapother
firsts world wide
The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced. Vincent D'Onofrio
firsts opinion respectful
When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work. Woody Allen
firsts cuckoos cry
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. William Wordsworth
firsts my-favorite all-time
Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time. William J. Clinton
firsts talent virtue
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents. William Gilmore Simms
firsts lasts ifs
If you ain't first, you're last! Will Ferrell
firsts world first-time
When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time. Sarah Ban Breathnach
firsts copies files
Destroy the old files, but make copies first. Samuel Goldwyn
firsts excited worried
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do. Sally Ride
firsts contests
I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6. Ryan Sheckler
firsts film written
I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30. Ryan Phillippe
firsts telling-the-truth asks
When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?' Wendy Cope
firsts albums sweden
And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour. Wanda Jackson
firsts behinds jokes
It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes. Wanda Sykes
firsts innocence remember
Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved? W. H. Auden
firsts france first-lady
In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else. Valerie Trierweiler
firsts notoriety limelight
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
firsts clubs belfast
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. Van Morrison
firsts study ancient
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived. Upton Sinclair
firsts shows journalist
Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. Tyra Banks
firsts fantasy impulse
Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. Walt Disney
firsts serious email
On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! Vinton Cerf
firsts impossible first-time
Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible Sarah Dessen
firsts alive language
It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.
firsts world hours
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
firsts quiet empty
I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.
firsts bitter weak
Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.