The First Quotes

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what's going on with the business.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

My lips went inside the sheep's fur. It was my first kiss. What is this. Why did the staff make me do this?!

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own

First things first, I'm da realest.

The groves were God's first temples.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

Don't cry over spilt milk.

Success only hurts the first time.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.