Firsts Quotes - Page 246

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

There's just a misconception that comes with being a dual-threat quarterback. You run first, throw second. I've proven I throw first and then run if I have to.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons.

I don't rush out the first day to see every horror movie, but I do keep up on them, because I want to talk intelligently with the fans about them.

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.

I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was also to go to film first, get enough notoriety in film that I could interpret some of the opera stuff the way I would want to interpret it.

Everyone, young and old, was responding to [Frank] Sinatra. So, the first time that I physically remember, it was as a youth. He always seemed to be there, let me put it that way. I can't remember the exact first time, but I can remember the effect his voice had on me.

That's what [Frank] Sinatra did. He was the first artist to come out in a major way against anti-Semitism and racial bigotry. And those are huge things back in the 50s and 60s and 70s - and he was doing this in the 40s.

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.

In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.