The First Quotes

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dollsone of those.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial one in any love story.

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Put God first in everything you do.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.

From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl, My heart says follow through.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line.

O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.

If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

Life is short, have dessert first.

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.