The First Quotes

I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.

There's a first time for everything when I'm involved.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

Trust is the first step to love.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Life is short. Eat dessert first.

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

You'll never come second by putting God first.

I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.

Our first and last love is self-love.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

I could be a comedian. I could be a gangster. I could play all of those parts, even for the first time... I'm versatile.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Respect, brotherhood - the family comes first, and everything else falls in place after that.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

First impressions are always unreliable.

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.