Firsts Quotes - Page 38

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.

The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.

You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.