Firsts Quotes - Page 219

The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.

Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.