Firsts Quotes - Page 155

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Everyone is just as committed and focused as they were the first season.

The first 18 holes are extremely difficult.

For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream. This is probably one of my worst places.

It was the first car accident I had ever been in. It shakes you up a little bit.

When you get up in the morning, let your first thought be directed towards God.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

First you have to have a dream.

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

I was Google's first woman engineer.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.