Firsts Quotes - Page 224

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

For death begins with life's first breath, And life begins at touch of death.

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

You never forget your first love.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place.

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

It was there that we really first came in contact with the work of Shoji Hamada, who was Bernard's best friend from Japan, who had come from Japan back to England with [Bernard] Leach when Leach was establishing his pottery.

First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.