Firsts Quotes - Page 304

The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.

When you play with someone you can feel the chemistry with, just the first show is already magic.

Music came first and I started to jam with people I couldn't communicate in their language. Then, because I could make friends thanks to music, they started to talk to me. Then I started to learn English.

The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.

When it comes to policing, since it can have literally fatal consequences, I have said, in my first budget, we would put money into that budget to help us deal with implicit bias by retraining a lot of our police officers.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

I'd be just incredibly humbled and honored to be the first woman president.

I have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres — being a first-term senator.

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.

When we recognise that reflective processes are no more outside the causal net than unreflective processes, and that they are bound by similar constraints, we may come to understand the nature of reflection for the first time.

When I first began studying philosophy, a good deal of what went on in analytic epistemology was focused on addressing the Gettier problem. At first, I became quite caught up in it, and the kind of analytical ingenuity required for the work appealed to me. After a while, however, I started to lose interest.

I think that my interest as a creator always comes first, so I'm wondering things like "Just how free is this world?" and "Where are the boundaries?"

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.