Firsts Quotes - Page 159

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

kazehaya-kun has given me a lot of FIRSTS

There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.

Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

An english baron wed to my daughter? I'll die first, I will." Johanna quit rubbing Claire's shoulder and stepped forward. "A very rich baron," she blurted out. The laird frowned at Johanna with what she thought was indignation. "Wealth is not an issue here," he muttered. "How rich?" They were married an hour later.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight.

You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.