The First Quotes

A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

I truly believe in love, and I think that every relationship should start the way that our relationship started with our first love when we were 16, 17 or 18.

I think that first love defines you and your relationships, for the rest of your life. I had a great first love. My heart was ripped out of my chest, but I think that happens to everyone.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST

Like first love, the heart of Russia will not forget you.

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

When I look at her, it's like when I was in seventh grade and fell in love for the first time, where it's debilitating. That's available 24/7 if I want, which is amazing.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

This girl said "Yes" when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.