The First Quotes

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

God first, family second, career third.

The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

First love is alright, as far as it goes. Last love – that’s the one I’m interested in.

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.

Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material

Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.

I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?

I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, 'There goes Van Basten's son.' Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.

First impressions never have a second chance.

A lot of people talk about the trail healing them, but I feel like, the first time, it humbled me, which I probably needed. It was a completely new way to experience the world and my body.

If Donald Trump were elected, it would be the first time a little boy became president.

What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.